•April 15, 2020•
By Mike Brothers

These times keep changing and in order to hang on to my last bit of sanity I headed into the woods recently.
For a while I was able to escape COVID-19 reports while make a wonderful discovery... I like morel mushrooms.
I had only heard stories of the search for the famed fungal delight of the forest.
The morel mushroom is a funny cone shaped fungi, that prompts millions and millions of people to march the soft soils beneath favored trees every spring.
Signaled in southern Illinois by May apple sightings in the forest beds, my little brother Jeff turned the great morel mystery into reality for my very first time.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.