Maple Woods

A hardwood forest up in Gladstone covered in Maples, pawpaws, oaks, and hickories.

And this

OLD MAN-!-->

Found lots of fungi this morning-- puffballs, bearded tooth, jack o lanterns, little Brown things, and a zillion different molds and shelf fungi.

Here are a few shrooms I found. Two species of LBM's on deacying logs, and this odd one I found in the leaflitter:

'Twas about 2 inches tall, and was the only one like it in the area.

Solomon's Seal?

And the last insect of the year...