21/07/2008

My free time is totally absorbed by my passions: truffles and mushrooms. I dedicate now to one, now to the another thing. The results are mixed, but in this period prevail results of truffles.
Precisely for this reason I speak today of mushrooms.
The year started well. Already in June I found some Boletus Pinophilus, then in July Boletus Aestivalis. Many years that I don't started like this. Not for my fault.
It is about twenty years that I frequent a forest that now is like my second home. The disease is so serious that often I find myself in the woods with the torch before sunrise. I don't know, to be only among the mountains gives me tranquillity. Also I like to hear what my senses, in this unusual situation, amplify my feelings.
The last exit Saturday, July 19 has not gone well, one porcino: it is the late-comer. Now ground is too dry. It will have to wait new rains.
But the tour has not been in vain: my spirit rejoices at the sight of roe-deer, hares ........ and foxes. They are quiet and discreet companions of life of our forests.