red 'shrooms at night

Actually, it was more like late afternoon on a cloudy day.




My interest here is more of the "whoa, kewl--take a picture" variety.

A naturalist might know if these gnawed looking mushrooms were dined on by the slugs, a passing mower blade or something else.

(Folks like to bad mouth Wikipedia, but word there is slugs do eat fungus. Your gastropods may vary.)




Criss crossed by clover stems and pine needles, red 'shrooms abide. More of the micro gnome's-eye view:













Young slugs in love--must be spring.

mayshroom

Alternate title: 'shroom with a view.




This big guy was found growing on a stump yesterday, but I only got around to photographing it today. As most lawns hereabouts have yet to be mowed for the first time, this hearty specimen has grown up fast.

















Here are some other mushrooms, also found yesterday growing on another stump. They were already past their prime by the time I returned with a camera.

aforementioned gnarly mushrooms

Here are those gnarly neighbor 'shrooms I mentioned back in the Tarantula-baum entry. Weird fleshy things I wouldn't want to elaborate about in prose 'cept to say: cool, huh?



This was the fungi of mid-November (unseasonably warm weather). By now the weather's still unseasonably warm but the 'shrooms have since dried up some and been mowed over. But kudos to the neighbor for having the presence of mind not to mow them down back in their prime.