Barry Chapman of Hegewisch found these nickel-sized morels at the end of March.

It's been slow finding in the weeks since.

In fact, I am down to next to nothing for MOTW, the weekly celebration of morels found around Chicago. Generally I run MOTW in May on the Sunday outdoors page of the Sun-Times. This year I started on April 1, the earliest start with some faith readers would keep coming through even if cold and dry came back.

If you have a MOTW, email straycasts@sbcglobal.net.