[CH] Champignons de Texas
Rob Solarion (roberto@1starnet.com)
Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:30:33 -0500
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My brother recently moved back here from Austin. He bought a very
nice farm in the Greater Bridges Chapel Community about halfway
between Talco and Mount Misery, Texas. If you turn off onto the
county roads to go there, his road is as far north as you can go
before you reach the floodland of White Oak Creek, what would become
the western shores of the proposed Marvin Nichols II Reservoir. If
there were a MN II, you could see it from his front lawn. White Oak
Creek is about two miles north of there as the crow flies and would
be an easy walk. If there is ever a MN II, the value of his property
will probably triple or quadruple.
As some of you know, I "vaguely" support MN II over MN I, but my
preference in this regard had nothing to do with my brother's
purchasing this particular farm. His is an isolated area; but if MN
II were built, then the road in front would be a primary access road
to the western shoreline; and the traffic would be horrible,
especially on weekends and holidays. These days you can sit around
for hours, and not a vehicle passes by. One can't just "get lost"
out there. There is a "primitivity" about this area that is totally
captivating. Any commercialization resulting from MN II would
totally destroy that quality. Nevertheless, aesthetically, I think
that MN II would be a beautiful reservoir. After all, most of Titus
County has already been destroyed by Lakes Monticello and Bob
Sandlin, as well as all the strip-mining; so what difference would it
make to destroy the rest of it with MN II? Everybody Happy. Burma
Shave. I'll be glad to discuss this privately with any interested
recipients.
As a result of recent rains, cloudy days and muggy temperatures,
literally thousands of wild mushrooms have sprung up on my brother's
farm. It is a breathtaking sight to see, for those of us who are
captivated by such seemingly magical works of Nature. I drove out
twice and took some photographs. I also pulled some of them up by
the roots, brought them home, and replanted them in a shady area of
my back yard. These colorful and edible mushrooms are everywhere
right now. I am sure that a lot of you local people who live in the
Sulphur and White Oak Bottoms or other rural woodland areas have also
seen this variety of mushrooms. Some restaurants in Dallas and
elsewhere would probably pay a fortune to come over and harvest a
crop for an expensive daily special. I intend to ask around at some
of the restaurants that I frequent in Dallas, like the M Bar & Grill
on McKinney Avenue, which I highly recommend.
It wouldn't dawn on most people to eat these mushrooms, despite how
"pretty" and "tempting" they might look, because most people would
neither care about nor understand the difference between the truly
poisonous and "unpalatable" ones and the deliciously edible ones.
"Better safe than sorry," they would think. "I ain't gonna eat no
poisonous toadstool!" But some of these wild mushrooms are quite
tasty when compared to the bland white ones sold in grocery stores.
This area of Northeast Texas has a "secret economic bonanza" of
exotic wild gourmet mushrooms. If any of these reservoirs were
built, literally thousands of acres of land for such a potential
seasonal agricultural "cash crop" from wild mushroom sales would be
flooded and lost -- another reason to abandon ideas of these
reservoirs, no matter how "scenic" they might be under other
circumstances.
Although I have never been particularly fond of mushrooms, mainly
because I don't like the texture of them, I must say that these wild
edible ones are delicious. You can compare it to the difference
between a grocery-store tomato and a home-grown tomato. There is a
richness of flavor in food from one's "kitchen garden" that can't be
found at the supermarket.
At any rate, I have uploaded some commentary and photos of these
mushrooms to my SlowMotionDoomsday.Com website. There are 16 fairly
large JPGs, which could be slow to load on some computers. Please be
patient. To see these photos, click here:
http://www.slowmotiondoomsday.com/mushrooms.html
This webpage will be duplicated and revised for inclusion at the
Marvin Nichols Opposition website. Some of you will notified later
about these modifications.
If you have any observations to pass along, please do. I'm certainly
no expert on mushrooms, but this is a sideline subject in my life
that really interests me.
Cordialement, Robert
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Rob Solarion
Northeast Texas
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