That was stage two of my childhood. I was a military brat for the first 14 years, then we went to my father's home town in NW Pa. When the old farmers there died off, much of the land sat empty. And when the families couldn't or didn't want to keep the properties, they gave it to a kind of land trust that classified the land as state game lands and managed forests. Lots of old dumps there for digging through and no one around to get upset about it. I was horrible about seeing arrowheads laying on the ground, but a couple of others seemed to have some kind of arrowhead detectors. The could spot them all the time. Anyway, yes, we had some good times back then.
I usually go after Bluegill. But Catfish, Drum, Crappie, and the Occasional Stripe run. The Stripe run in still water when the turbines are off and the floodgates closed. I have seen some monster catfish come out of there by snagging but snagging is now against the law. I saw some real hogs snagging fish. I feel snagging is unsportsmanlike. My fish are hooked through the mouth. Or some minnows trapped in crayfish traps. I have aquariums in my shed and keep some minnows. I would love to catch painted devil crayfish. I think they would do well in aquarium trade. But they may be an endangered species and have to be reported. If they would let me keep some for breeding. I mean they should be local.
I caught a 25lb. Flathead catfish today and didn't get a pic. Gave the fish away. Also caught some bluegill. Enough for a couple good meals.
Those look like the common lawn mushroom here, "Lepidotra" or something. Non edible but they may not be the same. Can you ID these?
Sorry I know nothing about mushrooms. I would like to know wild edibles as I love to eat commercially grown ones. But I would likely kill myself on wild mushroom. I know what a morel is but we don’t have any around here. Have to go 30 miles south to the river. These in the picture will grow to be around 8 inches in diameter. I think you or someone else recently posted the ones you posted here in reference to shrooms. Is that what they are?
Indeed, the famous "purple ringer" AKA Pscilocybe Cubensis that grows on the dung of grass eating mammals in temperate regions around the globe, even elephant dung, but far most common on cattle dung. Years ago, a friend's nephew and wife visited from up North. While camping on the river, he went hunting in the woods and returned with maybe 20 mushrooms and asked me to ID the pscilocybes. I counted 12 distinct species, none the sought after ones and told him I dont know what they are but I know what they aint. In Florida, if it grows directly on cow dung and stains blue where cut or bruised (rapidly) then it's a pscilocybe. I told him not to deviate from that and you cant go wrong, anyhow the dummies ate ones like in your pic. They were very ill for several days but fortunately, they species does not cause permanent liver damage. There are also toxic "false morels" to beware of. Sometimes even pro mycologist must prepare a spore print on a microscope slide to positively ID.
Friend's home for sale, typical of old wooden houses here dating from 1900 to WW2 or so. 140K on a main HWy Zone to live in and run a business. He ran a used book shop for years, 50K books on the property by his count. I did alot of pressure washing and painting here, over the years.
Never looked through this sub forum before. A lot of great photography. I’ll post a few now and then. Surprised there isn’t more participation here. Maybe like me nobody has discovered it! LOL Week old screech owl and a late night bandit.
Well I have lots of cow dung so I’ve probably got some pscilocybes. Never heard of imposter morels. I know several people who hunt them and never heard anyone being sick. Several years ago a buddy and I met up and took a backpacking trip in Colorado where we grew up. We found a bunch of puff ball type mushrooms as big as basketballs. Later someone told me the big ones are good to eat but I’m not going off thin information like that. I saw your fossilized teeth. There was a huge sandstone boulder a half mile from my house as a kid that was full of shark teeth about the size of your thumbnail. It was the devil getting them chipped out without damaging them. Don’t have any anymore.
In the USA that would be in the SE region, far West as TX? The Pacific NW is home to at least 6 species (including the most potent one of all) Fossils are just laying in the sand and gravel beds in the river here. False Morels - The Great Morel www.thegreatmorel.com › false-morels The “False Morel” has several species which carry scientific names such as Gyromitra esculenta, Verpa, Hellvella, and Disciotis. The Verpa and gyromitrin species are the most often mis-identified variety. The gyroomitrin is often referred to as the “red mushroom”, the “beefsteak mushroom” or the “lorchel”.
I grew up in south central Colorado. I now live in Nebraska. Where I live now you can’t find a rock if your life depended on it, let alone a fossil.
Seems like you should have Dino fossils, might be very deep though. Here in Florida, we have no Dino fossils as it was seabed when Dinos roamed earth. I suppose marine Dino fossils should be present but I have never found any. Pretty sure a P. Cubensis would be rare or completely unknown to occur in NB.
I grew up a few miles from here: https://www.blm.gov/visit/garden-park-fossil-area Used to go look at digs sometimes on the weekends. The hog back hills a couple hundred yards south of my childhood home had a plethora of clam imprint fossils. Basically any layer of rock you separated contained one. I took the above picture of one of the informational placards at the site in the link above last fall when I was in CO to see my mom. This is Native American petroglyphs a couple miles from my childhood home. Taken last fall as well. In the part of Nebraska I live in now it’s about 120 ft to any strata that could contain fossils. It’s a double layer of gravel and round river type looking rock left from two separate glacier events. If you go 30 miles to the river the gravel layers are only a few feet below the river silt soil layer. I don’t honestly know if they find fossils in any of the gravel pits down there. I use a lot of “mud rock” from those pits around the farm to fill potholes etc. and I’ve never seen anything fossilized in any rocks. Could be though.
Glad I found this photo. He maybe deceased now, he entered hospice last October with liver cancer, I last saw him a couple months ago. Going to see about him tomorrow.