Hello Everyone,
Most of you don't know me because I have mainly been a lurker, meaning I haven't posted, I just look at all of your posts and enjoy seeing your finds. Early on I used to post. I was actually a member before Mary took over the site and it moved to a new address. Then I one spring when I decided to check things out again, I realized that the site was gone! Fortunately, only the address had changed. At that time, Mary was asking for donations to help keep the site alive. So I offered to volunteer in helping out with the technical side of things (although Mary handled that pretty well).
A little background. I live in northern Minnesota and mainly hunt mushrooms to eat. I walk around mushrooms when I see them, I mow around the maitake that grows in my front yard, I like taking close up photos of mushrooms. If I notice an interesting one I've never seen before, I will usually take photos and look into what it is. With that said, I do not claim to be an expert. Many of you in the group are very knowledgeable and far exceed me in your understanding. However, I work as a freelance web developer... since northern Minnesota is a hard market, I also work as an in-house web developer for our local public television station, Lakeland Public Television. So it makes sense with my background and interest in mycology that I take over as administrator of the site. But like I said before, I don't plan on any big changes. Also, I'm only administrator which means I just run the things in the background that you mostly will never notice.
I'll try to post a little more from time to time but I'll still be lurking (not in a creepy way) :-)