No Morels (this year)

I spent countless hours traipsing through brush and woods looking for morels this April with no luck whatsoever. It's been incredibly dry here since last July so I'm sure that had something to do with it. We were working in Rose Hill the first week of May when I happened to look down at the ground and discovered a half-free morel growing out of a neatly trimmed lawn. At first I thought it was a ceramic doo-dad, that is until I reached down and picked it. It was small, it was half rotten, but it was a morel.

The very next day my brother called and said he'd discovered one growing in his lawn, and in a very similar condition to the one I'd discovered. A few days after that I found a picture on Google earth of morels growing near Cheney lake.

I'll be looking again next year, and hopefully we'll have a little rain so the picking will be better. Jer's uncle told us he'd picked bags full near his house in years past, so that gives me some hope. :)

Update

Well, I figured I should write and let our readers know what's been happening lately...

Water levels have been LOW! But... I don't feel like complaining right now, so onto the good news...

We have begun redesigning Konza Life to hopefully improve it quite drastically. I don't fancy myself a web designer, so these things take a lot of time for me to get up to my standards. As long as we've had this site running via Blogspot, there have been things I'd like to improve on, but limited to the tools Google provides.

I have decided to start building a custom theme using Wordpress, which will allow for a far greater range of design possibilities. My first attempts have lead to roadblocks(of course), but haven't discouraged me from continuing my quest to provide an A+ Kansas outdoors blog for interested readers.

Some of the things I am working on are...

-Dropdown menus for things such as Streamflow Conditions, Rivers, Lakes and other places

-Individual pages for places we visit (which will include things such as maps, photos and info)

-A separate blog area for us to rant and rave

-Better organization for finding the info you want to read (won't be as much sifting through posts)

-Ad free and non-profit (the way a Kansas outdoor blog should be)

If all goes as planned, I think everyone will appreciate the new design a lot. Part of our mission for creating a site such as this, is making a site we would like to visit ourselves for information.

I like the idea of being able to come to this site and have everything I want to see visible and not-intimidating. Wonder what that Fall river access looks like? Just click Rivers/Fall River and you will be sent to a page with directions, map, photos and info.

That's what I have in mind... Now I just need to finish another website I have been working on, so I can crank this one out!

Please be patient and check this site often, we do have a couple authors besides me(nudge), so sometimes things just seem to pop up!

I'd like to thank everyone that enjoys the Kansas outdoors and takes care of our wonderful state.

Stay tuned! Cheers