Douglas Sherman
Staff
A lot of mushrooms come up in the fall. The first one is a puffball and the second one is a scale cap.
I don't usually stumble into in tact mushrooms either. Someone has usually chomped on them.The puffballs look really neat nestled in amongst the reds of the leaves. The color in the scale caps is notable - I rarely stumble into a set of mushrooms like that that are all intact like these.