More photos of the cool mushrooms we saw on our Sunday hike:

This mushroom was sitting in a lone sunbeam and shone like a lemony neon sign.  It was a little mucous baby.

This patch of mushrooms was almost impossible to see at first, as it blended in so well with the surrounding oak leaves.  We thought at first they were blewits, but remained a bit skeptical so didn’t end up picking them.

This cup fungus caught our eye.  It looked like a dirty, lonely ear sticking up out of the earth.

These may be called fairy fingers, fairy clubs, earth tongues, something like that.  I just enjoyed taking a blurry picture of them.

Another view of our Chanterelles-That-Weren’t

We took advantage of the most beautiful Sunday to check out the mushrooms which are popping up all over in the hills.  We found an awesome variety!  A fellow hiker told us that a month ago a few dogs had died from eating some white mushrooms in the park.  Destroying angels or Death caps, maybe?  We found some all white mushrooms, but not sure if they were aminitas.  Fungus didn’t eat any.

A real purple mushroom! A blewit, delicious and beautiful.

We got so excited thinking that we actually had found a whole hillside of chanterelles.  It shared a lot of the same characteristics, but not all.  We think it might be a Jack O’Lantern mushroom, but haven’t fully ID-ed it yet.  Jack O’ Lanterns supposedly glow in the dark when they’re releasing spores!  I’ll let you know the results of that test.

A beautiful orange mushroom glowing in the filtered light

This mushroom was covered, cap to stem, with a thick, gnarly mucous.  Beautiful purple-ish gills, though.

Pretty little red cup mushrooms

This was a gorgeous mushroom with a firm, stick-like stem and a deep red top.