We were surprised to see Jake's Mushroom Shack in Coos Bay open for business early in June. The door was open, and several men were visting beside an old pickup with its hood up. We would have expected Jake's to have been closed up tight by the early part of June. What could Jake be buying? Curious, we just couldn't resist stopping to say "hi" and ask "what's happening?"
Late May brings newborns to our woods.
Jake reported that the commercial pickers are continuing to harvest a diminishing collection of yellow feet, hedgehogs and black trumpets. Apparently, in the nearby higher altitudes, this cool, moist spring in Coos and Curry Counties has lengthened the usual mushroom season...certainly a welcome event for the commercial pickers.
The colorful goldfinches have arrived,
heralding the beginning of springtime in Port Orford!