These are chanterelle mushrooms that I picked from our yard.  They are growing down near the apple trees, and all around.  There are so many, I was able to just harvest the clean-ish ones.  They can be really hard to get clean sometimes, so I try to stay in the grassy areas, rather than the dirt and rocks.  

 

Chanterelles come up every year around the Fourth of July, especially if we've had a bunch of rain.  This year they have been especially prolific.  Patty and I have been out a few times collecting them.  We know all the best spots.

 

Harvesting mushrooms can be a risky business if you don't know what you are looking for or looking at.  Please don't use my picture for identification purposes;  get a good mushroom guide, or find somebody who knows about mushrooms.  They can be delicious, or deadly;  and who wants to find that out the hard way?  Not I.  

 

HAPPY SUMMER!!!