The other day one of my colleagues spotted some shaggy manes growing on a lawn across the street from where I work. They are delicious mushrooms and there were lots of them. Unfortunately, I wasn’t going to be able to use them that day, and shaggy manes are ephemeral. These are mushrooms that spread their spores using deliquescence. They dissolve themselves into black ink of their own creation.

I’m hoping there is going to be another flush of them one day soon. I’m ready to pop across the street on my lunch break to do a little harvesting.