Two specimens found several miles apart in a 2 week period. (This observation is the most recent and larger of the two specimens collected.) Second observation is posted separately but noted here to indicate that unusual local conditions must have been favorable for this fruiting -- I have never found this mushroom before during 7 years of very local collecting. Unusual weather comments: Hot early spring (lousy morel season), some rain end of June, dry very hot summer in early July for about 10 days, more normal rainfall in August. Everything seemed advanced about 2 weeks in appearance this year.