Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: on rotting log

These must be the smallest mushrooms I've seen (maybe half an inch total across all three?) - just like three tiny, dark circles growing amongst the moss on a fallen, rotting log that I was looking down on. For some very strange reason, this is one of the only photos (out of many) that came out sharp enough to post. Most were total blurs. I was thankful for this one - and especially thankful for seeing ANY kind of fungus in this poor fungi season : ) Photographed at Brown-Lowery Provincial Park a couple of days ago. It rained here overnight, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I might still see a few more before the season is completely over. Leaves are turning yellow on our trees, so very soon the forest floor will be covered with a blanket of yellow and brown that hides everything growing beneath.

This was the very last fungus that I found and photographed on my walk at Brown-Lowery Provincial Park yesterday afternoon. Maybe an inch and a quarter wide and growing on top of a fallen log. No gills, so presumably a Polypore? Hardly a photogenic fungus to be found in the park. Not sure if there had been heavy rain/hail (like we had had recently in the city) or whether mushroom season is winding down (after only what, maybe three or four weeks!!!!!). Also, a family passed me on the path, and Mom and Dad were both carrying a bag of "something", I suspect, mushrooms! No idea what language they were speaking (European?), but I really felt like asking if that's what they had. After all, you are not allowed to remove anything from a Provincial Park and, secondly, you just don't do that when Anne is coming with her camera, LOL! However, some people do collect mushrooms to eat and in vast quantities - last summer on one outing, several of us were talking with a family who had spread out piles of wild mushrooms including, if I remember correctly, coral fungi. The mushrooms I did see yesterday were almost all well past their prime and the path had many that looked like they had been placed on the path and stomped on till disintegrated. Never seen this before. Came home with few photos and feeling "down". After all, this is "supposed" to be the peak of fungi season : ) Yikes!