They won't come fully back to life, as in eating them fresh. But for cooking purposes, soak them in warm water to cover, for about 20 minutes. Then add to whatever dish you'll be using them in. If you'll be sauteing them in, say, butter, wring them out well before adding to the pan.

Those ticks. They are always bad this time of year, it must be their hatching time. We found some mushrooms too and some ticks. I actually don't like to eat them, the mushrooms that is. (I know, I know) but I sure like to hunt them. It's like easter for grown-ups...

Poor black snake, just catching some rays and gets disturbed. I too think that he was scared. I have seen black snakes lying rippled up like that before. It is an old wives tale that persimmons have to be frosted to sweeten up but it's not true. Persimmons just need a long time to mature, and most years they don't get it til after a frost. But if a frost delays til late Nov early Dec as it has some recent years you can eat persimmons before frost. I boil poke just once for about 5 min in plenty of water, pour off the water and then scramble it with eggs. I like it but my California raised husband doesn't. He will eat lambsquarters though, especially if I mix it with spinach. Watercress is one of my favorite spring greens. I eat it raw after washing well in water with a dab of bleach and then rinsing and when I can get enough I steam it or scramble with eggs. I like all the wild fruits, blackberry, mulberry, wild grape, wild cherry, mayapple, passionfruit, persimmon, but only eat them raw in moderation because so many wild animals depend on them. This year though I hope to make persimmon bread, which I like, expecially with black walnuts.

Iowa girl 2006, How do they feel about you walking across their lawn and picking their flowers? There's a difference? Folks used to feel that it was O.K. to raid our orchard, beside a sideroad, about 8 miles from town. Dad told them that it wasn't ... and when he asked them about the comparison relative to the flowers, many of them got rather huffy. Some didn't even see the legitimacy of the comparison! He found some morels in that orchard, once, and we had them in soup, sort of like oyster soup, which we found quite enjoyable, if I remember correctly - it was about 65 years or more ago. They are rather a rare delicacy, in this area, I think. ole joyful