Today’s featured pic represents another outdoor pursuit that I dabble in on occasion with only mild success. Nowhere near the amount in the postings that appear every year of folks with mounds of fungus on picnic tables or filling truck beds. Nope, if I get a few dozen, I’m feeling like an overachiever. But hey, my meager finds work just fine for frying up a couple batches of the annual treat that occasionally convinces me to give up a few hours of fishing time.

This photo comes from 2009 and features a neat cluster of ten morels that even I couldn’t miss when tromping through the woods. Here’s a look back at the find via an excerpt from an outdoor report that I submitted to family and friends back on April 29, 2009.

“I actually found a couple dozen during a few hours roaming Little John on 4/29. Fifteen good sized ones came from one spot including ten that were growing together in a clump. I’d never seen that many clustered so close together and considered leaving them so someone else might also enjoy the spectacle. Okay, maybe not. I did take a photo to share the find with others and then picked them so I could also share them with my family. Considering my past morel history, I guess it’s already a banner year.”

That clump was the first of two cool finds in 2009 as the picture of my girls above is a collection of morels from the following evening (April 30, 2009) that I found in a neighbor’s yard when we lived in Galesburg, Illinois. That batch easily outdid my haul from the wild.

Another story for another day. Perhaps deserving inclusion in a new blog banner down the road. Talk to you later. Troy