Flash forward a week. A dry, cold week. Poor sad cyans were just drying in their spot. No new pins. I harvested them all. Hope for rain and another flush!

You are making my mouth water!! Great looking patch, guys. I gotta get myself up there sometime.

Not bad for the beginning of the season.

nicely done

There is really almost nothing I love better in the fall than grabbing a couple of hours on a weekend morning, putting Greensky Bluegrass on my iPod, throwing on a rain jacket, and heading out into the drizzle to explore the wet woods near my house in search of cyans.

There's this beautiful patch of alder woods about 2 miles from my house with a nice walking trail through it. It's a site with lots of forest restoration work being done - planting native species, tearing out blackberries, etc - so there are tons of chips in there around the new little trees they are planting, and I just KNEW there were cyans in there - the microclimate is just perfect - mature alders and lots of chips - and I found one small patch last year. It's also just a beautiful, beautiful autumn deciduous forest, full of amanitas and stropharias and vine maples and ferns and salal.

So today I found an hour to get in there in the rain and I was wet and I was happy and after an hour of looking pretty hard, I was also rewarded. THAT is the best feeling - after an hour of looking and wondering if you're getting warmer, and feeling like they have to be near you because you can sense you are in the PERFECT little cyan micro-habitat, to suddenly look down and go "Oh! Hi there little ones! My little caramel friends!" because there they are peeking out at you from the leaves on the forest floor. Like they've been waiting and wondering when you would get there.

These babies are part of a decently large patch (maybe 50-70 mushrooms) that is in a nice well-hidden spot and they will be just the right size for harvesting in about a week. One of three patches I found, all at the same level of maturity. Good times! Next weekend I'll be harvesting!

Well done! See ya next week brother.

IH


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hey beautiful photos btw

Well I got a moment to hit one of my patches today. These babies are healthy! I was surprised to see so many, I figured they'd all be picked, but I guess no one has found these. They were waiting for me!

The coffee cup is there for size reference, and also it's my inconspicuous pickin container.

Though these are big, they still aren't as big as some I found there last year. I found a cyan that weighed just over 19 grams. That one was a good trip by itself!

Nice Mr. P, thats exactly what I do with the coffee cup. Haha! Great looking mushrooms.

beautiful finds mr.peabody

Semios, those pictures are amazing, gorgeous, dopamine generating articles in their own right! Everyone's posts here are amazing of course, but Semios... Those are color pallet picture perfect brother! Nice work!

Met my brother from another mother Ice House this morning early for a nice Saturday walk in the woods. Cyans are coming on in my patches but still definitely have another week or two till there's a full-on flush of them at full size.

Tell me, why do they call them "caramel caps" again?

SO gorgeous!! Man I love those mushrooms.

Semios Brother, Thanks for the wonderful time this morning, Nice Saturday morning walk indeed.

IH

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Mr.Peabody those are some wonderful looking specimines way to go

Finally! Found my first cyans while at the beach

Sorry for the thoughtlessness but I only managed to snap a photo of the smallest least attractive of the entire weekends find...

Striate margins on the pileus. I've always wanted to find those, but live too far south. Would they even naturalize if you used spawn to create an outdoor patch in the winter here?

Beautiful those wild cyanescens ,i have a question have you ever find cyanofriscosa because in EU we have cyanescens azurescens but cyanofriscosa no.

I just wanted to share a few pics I snapped while out for a walk in my favorite parks. You might be able to tell why they are my favorite parks (hint: these pictures have mushrooms in them)

The first image was a cluster of rather pretty ones just hanging out in clear view along a walking path. I always am shocked when this happens. How can people walk by such awesomeness and not even know it?!

The second is from the same park, again just out in the open for the world to see.

The third is located under a tree at another park.

The fourth is a step back from the first. The same cluster in the third pic can be faintly seen at the very top of the fourth pic. This shot was difficult, as there was no way to get them all in focus! I counted about 60 individual shrooms in just that one image. There was more, lots more....

Unfortunately, the weather got cold and froze most of these babies, so the shroomiez in the fourth pic never reached maturity . Oh well, they'll manage. There's no keeping these bad boys down!

Mmmm--- mouthwatering pictures! In my part of the world some cyans appeared in late August!! They continued into October; I thought they'd stopped for the year and then last week I saw some more at a different location nearby - growing out of a half-buried plank?! Sorry, no pics for these, though.

Ah, man. I've got to become familiar what with this mushroom's habitat looks like.

I went all along the coastal line this morning looking for what MIGHT look like it, but to no avail.

I just know woody wood chips, a little grass and then there they should be.

I've not known this part of the world for very long, as I'm from Alabama, so this is all new to me.

Oh lovers of the Pacific Northwest, will you teach me?

Looking at parks the next time I go.