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[Oregon Viking]

Blacks start the season.
Smoky colored early they blend so well I've though thier pattern would make great camouflage patterns to hide from humans.

The very first are raison sized. Often on a long decayed oak stump in moss where they won't be seen later in season. A magic temp involved maybe. That 50 degree I keep resisting the urge to run around with a cooking thermometer about.

I like poplar groves with thigh sized at least tree trunks for blacks. Soft underfoot from the loam of decades of leaf drops and rarely really ever dried out.
Where bark has slipped off downed trunks or limbs or entire tops is worth tracing. For me holding my head still and scouring for sponge of any color works best. Keeping my eyes away from any of my shadow. Other shadow doesn't help either but explains why I like to hunt cloudy days.

There were mounds on one spot since logged and dried out.. that might have been ancient pine stumps . There were my first picks of the season of any size.
In all cases a sponge type ground. Which given what the morels are the fruit of makes sense. And holds moisture while acting as insulation warmed from below by the earths temp..

Finding the first of the season (seeing it) is important. Just as first of each hunt is.

Yellows later in low spots or richest soils are huge in comparison. And wave at you from twenty yards away glowing like hunter orange ten mile cloth.
Then squeak when you cut them .

late season I watch the sides of our road where my plowing snow debris ends up. Sometimes one peaks out. Or two .

Mushrooms ? Well......

Wild Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest – Kitsap Peninsula Mycological Society

kitsapmushrooms.org

 

[Oregon Viking]

This is an interesting article.

Guide to Mushroom Picking in the Pacific Northwest

Learn how to safely forage wild mushrooms in the Pacific Northwest. This guide covers identification tips, ethical harvesting, and top species to look for.

projectupland.com

 

[Oregon Viking]

Good afternoon !!!!

 

[Oregon Viking]

Spring storm here.

Chetco River Bar Camera

16330 Lower Harbor Rd P.O. Box 848 Brookings OR 97415

www.portofbrookingsharbor.com

 

[Oregon Viking]

I will take one of each !!

 

[releventchair]

Mushrooms ? Well......

Wild Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest – Kitsap Peninsula Mycological Society

kitsapmushrooms.org

Devil’s Club: Sacred Plant of the Northwest — Hearthside Healing

This summer I spent quite a bit of time with a plant known as Devil’s Club (Oplopanax horridus) that grows wild in the northwest and up through the west coast of Canada to Alaska. If you have ever come across this plant you will never forget it. It grows upwards of 12 feet tall with a tall sharp

www.hearthsidehealing.com

 

[pepperj]

Devil’s Club: Sacred Plant of the Northwest — Hearthside Healing

This summer I spent quite a bit of time with a plant known as Devil’s Club (Oplopanax horridus) that grows wild in the northwest and up through the west coast of Canada to Alaska. If you have ever come across this plant you will never forget it. It grows upwards of 12 feet tall with a tall sharp

www.hearthsidehealing.com

Go detecting and digging around some Devils Club, then let me know how the thorns feel.

 

[DizzyDigger]

Go detecting and digging around some Devils Club, then let me know how the thorns feel.

Devil's Club...all the pain is on the outside of the plant, and the healing part is inside.
If you are bitten by Devil's Club, take the stalk and crush it down. Then using the crushed
insides, make a poultice to go over where you were stung.

First it bites you, then it heals you.

Reminds me of wife #1, minus the healing part.

 

[Oregon Viking]

The Oregon sand dunes are the largest expanse of coastal sand dunes in North America. They stretch 40 miles along the Oregon Coast from Florence to Coos Bay with mounds up to 500 feet.

A great place to be !!

 

[releventchair]

Go detecting and digging around some Devils Club, then let me know how the thorns feel.

No!

Cutting across the drier back swamp corner on the way back to the truck one day a hand outside a crutch bumped something lightly and started to burn.
I stopped and looked and could only see a slender stub of a kind of sapling. Deer or bear must have stripped it.
Not a nettle or similar. Not a multiflora rose unless a single shoot.
Still don't know what it was but if we have Devils club around my area it's a good possibility.

The Russian olive festers too if a thorn breaks off under the skin.
Worse than the thistles . (Depending on how recently I've pulled any thistles.)
One olive thorn pierced my light canvas pants into my knee. Then washing made the canvas where punctured start fraying. L.o.l..
Just stay on the tractor!

 

[pepperj]

No!

Cutting across the drier back swamp corner on the way back to the truck one day a hand outside a crutch bumped something lightly and started to burn.
I stopped and looked and could only see a slender stub of a kind of sapling. Deer or bear must have stripped it.
Not a nettle or similar. Not a multiflora rose unless a single shoot.
Still don't know what it was but if we have Devils club around my area it's a good possibility.

The Russian olive festers too if a thorn breaks off under the skin.
Worse than the thistles . (Depending on how recently I've pulled any thistles.)
One olive thorn pierced my light canvas pants into my knee. Then washing made the canvas where punctured start fraying. L.o.l..
Just stay on the tractor!

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I learnt Florida has a few nasty thorns also, took a year for one to dissolve on my knee cap.

 

[ToddsPoint]

Good morning! ☕️ Another day of wind and rain. Heavy thunderstorms possible this afternoon.

 

[robertk]

Good morning!

Another day of wind and rain.

Here too. There's a pretty good storm front that has been track just right to miss us all night, but we're probably going to get wet again soon.

 

[pepperj]

Morning everyone

 

[pepperj]

Looking at this system and I'm hoping for may flowers 💐

 

[Gare]

Good Morning people. Hope you have a great day

 

[releventchair]

Looking at this system and I'm hoping for may flowers 💐

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That pink is freezing rain at the moment.
Skated around in the wheelchair on the deck when out with the dogs.

It should warm up quick today.
I'm driving ladyfriend to her distant cardiologist appt. this afternoon. Thunderstorms later will be better than ice...

 

[releventchair]

Mornin all.

 

[oldmxrat]

Good morning

 

[Evan in CA]

Good morning everybody