Interestingly there was evidence that someone else had been there before me -- I could see the neatly cut stipes of larger mushrooms beside the small ones I found. I wandered around in a wider circle, went up the hill a ways, found nothing, so circled back and proceeded downhill from where I had found the small ones. Then I came across a patch of White Chanterelles and picked a bag full.
I walked quite a while after that but did not find another patch.
I did, to my great joy, find a red legged frog. Quite unexpected in the forest. And she sat still so I could take some photos with my iPhone.
After leaving her to her -- I'm not sure what -- burying herself in the mud for the winter??? I went down the road to another place I have had luck in the past and found one small Golden Chanterelle in well over an hour of tramping through the wet salal and deep woods.
It was a lovely spot with the sun streaming through the trees and just before I gave up I came around a big old stump and found this:
The fungus had an unpleasant smell.
But was impressive in heft and detail.
A little further on I found some polypores:
I'm going to guess that this is Coltricia perennis (Tiger's Eye). There were several lovely speciments:
The large Mushroom on the tree stump is probably Tapinella atrotomentosa or velvet pax. The photo in Matchmaker is really similar to the one I saw...
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