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Sunday, September 25, 2011

Let's go shroomin'!

This particular Fall in New England is THE TIME for mushrooms. The semi-cool weather, persistent rainfall, and I am sure numerous other factors have combined to produce the perfect conditions for an unusually fantastic mushroom season. This past week Seth and I have seen the entire Prospect Hill forest floor bloom with 'shrooms. They aren't especially unusual and deadly looking (like the ones we saw in Australia), and not quite as bizarre as what we saw sold in Sant'Ambrogio market in Florence, but they are numerous. According to Yulia--who used to go mushroom picking before she moved to the US--most of them, especially in Cape Cod, are edible. I told Seth to go out with her husband and pick a few but he said he wouldn't trust a Russian in identifying American mushrooms, haha.

Since the mushrooms change almost daily (they seem to burst out of the ground in a matter of minutes only to die off within a couple days, if they manage to escape being gobbled up by a squirrel), you never know who to expect out in the park. Finally this morning I remembered to grab my camera to document some of our favorites, before they disappear.

A great morning with the fungi! Now time for some muffins ;o)




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