Spotting it, she dropped to one knee and slashed with the knife. The morsel fell into her hand.
Spring means the start of the month-long morel mushroom season in Northwest forests.
Amateur and commercial pickers scour the forests, looking for the spongy fungus whose nutty taste is a complement to steaks, pizza and eggs. Last year's big wildfires that burned 6 million acres in the West are expected to produce a bumper crop of morels because mushrooms thrive in recent burns. But a cold spring and drought in the Pacific Northwest have delayed the emergence of wild mushrooms from the ground. Hunting for wild mushrooms is a hobby, much like hunting, fishing or stamp collecting. May. There is a fall season in October.