The Mushrooms are in

I've been gathering wild mushrooms for a long time. My father knew about 5 different ones that he had known from Ukraine, Pravdibi Hrib, Kozak, Pidpenki, to name a few. But my hunting really took off after college. Over the years I've tried "seeding" my lawns by spreading the older specimens I collected on them in hopes that some of the spores would take off. I had no luck with the morels and the Apple tree, but this year I have had success With Boletus bicolor and the oak tree on my front lawn. It turns out that this species forms a symbiotic relationship with oaks. The recent rains have brought up a healthy crop. I'm drying them for use this Christmas to make mushroom dumplings and mushroom gravy. I have to get out to the woods later to look for Armillaria, or "stumpies" as the locals call them.