We’ve had a lot of rain in the last month (hooray! we need it), and the damp weather is great for mushrooms.
I think the second one is some kind of coral mushroom, genus Clavaria, but I’d never seen a purple one before. I don’t know about the little orange ones, but they were everywhere, growing right in the middle of the trail!
Great pics! I’m fond of fungi myself. Hmm, there’s a T-shirt slogan in there somewhere: “Fond of Fungi”
FM4E!
Indeed!
Awesome pix, Rebecca. Would like to add another suggestion to t-shirts: Fascinated by Fungi. If you don’t have it, add Audubon’s guide to mushrooms to your bookshelf – it’s fabulous!