[Hiker Mama]

Ouch, Pest! How'd you do that to yourself?

[mossy mom]

bicycle accident, the front rake locked up at high speed.

[gone]

[Gray]

[mntsun]

I thought Gomphus floccosus was inedible - ?

[puzzlr]

I know nothing about mushrooms, but I'm seeing a lot of interesting ones recently. Any identification help would be appreciated. On Change Creek trail (off I-90 near North Bend)

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Puffball mushroom and fall leaves

On Rainy Creek trail (MFK)

White mushroom (maybe Amanita or Lepiota?) rises to beat the winter snows

Cortinarius violaceus mushroom

Orange mushrooms (Pholiota aurivella?) growing on a fallen log

Mycena haematopus. It's called the "blood-foot mushroom" because, when you cut the stipe a red bloodlike latex oozes out.

[edited to update captions based on subsequent responses]

[Quark]

puzzlr, that 2nd one looks like a puffball; the purple one has made several appearances this year; violet cort. Yours is the best pic we have on this site so far.

[Nisquaww]

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mmmm...big chanti make me happy

[mhutch]

cool pictures, the tall one with white gills looks like either a species of Amanita or a Lepiota. need to see the top of the cap and/or base of the stem to tell. your violet cort looks more like Cortinarius violaceus than C. iodes (the species in the link). I would guess the orange/brown ones with viscid caps growing on wood are a species of Pholiota. and the little reddish ones look like Mycenas, probably M. haematopus or something similar... nice chants

[puzzlr]

I love this site, somebody knows everything. Thanks mhutch -- based on the fact that it's not viscous, I think you're right about the purple one. I wish I had known about the "blood foot" part -- I could have tested that aspect of the identification.

[Canuck]

Pest - how come when I click on the picture of you with the broken wrists, I get a different picture up on my screen? Looks like some guy with a beard trying to get away from the camera, and it looks like it was taken at a coffee shop?

[More Cowbell]

Spring has officially arrived at a secret location near Blewett Pass. Trillium and lilies were in bloom but very little else...EXCEPT FOR THESE TASTY TREATS:

Yum

My precious

The fairy ring to end all fairy rings

That fairy ring has to be record setting for numbers of morels in one location.

[More Cowbell]

I'm a baby killer. I honestly didn't know that it's siblings were attached.

What 2 baby morels look like.

[jackchinook]

Wow! I'm scrolling down, and down, and down, and next page, and down....and still no morels...and then two in a row. Just got back with another pound or so of these:

That's quite a fairy ring More Cowbell..nice find!

[Nisquaww]

Holy!!! Um...heeeey buddddyy....soooo... where ya been recently? Hmm?