The recent warmer weather and rain has brought the annual morel mushroom crop to the surface. Steve Vignolo spent most of the day Friday walking through some of his favorite mushroom hunting grounds and brought his day's take by the Daily Mail. He estimated the bag had about 1,000 mushrooms and weighed around 20 pounds. He said that before Friday he had probably collected about 500 morels. Vignolo said that he has been hunting mushrooms for 30 years and this is the latest in the year he has picked morels.