3:00 snapshot #810 plus Athol Fungus Fair 2011

[urbpan]

Last Saturday my dad and I met in Athol Massachusetts to catch some of the 5th annual Fungus Fair.




There were tables and tables of collected specimens, including a few I recognized from field guides but had never seen in person.


The main reason I made the trip was to see David Arora speak. David wrote Mushrooms Demystified, still unequaled in its scope and usefulness in mushroom identification some 30-odd years later. It's best to use it with another guide or two, to cross-reference and double-check. David showed slides of different large-scale wild mushroom collecting operations he has visited around the world.


Afterwards my dad and I went to the Blind Pig pub for some lunch and a cider.


Other bar patrons may prefer other beverages.

Comments

[urb-banal.livejournal.com]

A fungus fair, how cool is that!

[elainetyger.livejournal.com]

Seriously, who knew there was such a thing? The Urban Pantheist is more educated than a lot of the PhD's I know!