A mushroom social, of sorts...

I happened across a reference to the Long Island Mycological Club on the web yesterday, and learned that the club organizes "forays" on selected Saturdays. An email inquiry revealed that there was one scheduled today, starting at 10 am, at the Edgewood Oak Plains Preserve off of Commack Road. 

I made sure to attend.

The group consisted of about a dozen people, including a journalism/philosophy major from my alma mater, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, just down the road (relatively speaking).

The stroll took about 4 hours, and I captured images of specimens and conversation about them using my camera's video mode.

I may also have found my first matsutake, but I want to go back and review the videos and recall more precisely what the more experienced members of the group called it.

Photos and more tomorrow.

I got home at nearly 3 pm, whereupon I began to deal with our reason for being here (or part of it), the leaves from all the trees on the property. When I arrived about 10 days ago, before I left for Boston, there were hardly any leaves on the ground. Now, in places, the leaves are a few inches thick.

It was an active day, for sure. And it turns out the fitbit is smart enough not to accumulate steps while one is driving a car.

Cheers...