Eight from a Friday walk.

 The effects of last weekend's rain are still being felt.  Fungi are popping up and mosses and lichens are getting their color back.  On a walk around campus on Friday morning, I spotted a couple of fungi that were around 3" in diameter.  The one in the above photo was a part of a nice, 5-foot diameter fairy ring last Wednesday afternoon, but by Friday morning it was the only one to survive the mower.

 Here's a closer view of that one (above) and another one up the hill around 50 feet away.  I'm wondering if they might be part of the same fungi, connected beneath the surface by the same membrane.

 Here's a closer view of that second mushroom.  I'll be exploring this area again Monday morning.

 After checking out the fungi in the large expanse of lawn, I headed up to the college nature trail.

 There were lots of dried umbels of Brewer's Angelica.  I was imagining making dry arrangements in vases with these and the dried Teasel that are abundant now around American Valley.

 This was not a good year for the Gooseberries along the nature trail.  Only a few plants bearing fruit, and most of the fruit dried out early without ever reaching their usual juicy plumpness.

 The last plant that really got my attention was the Snowberry.  There were several healthy-looking bushed bearing fruit along the upper end of the trail.