Escaped the blade

While looking around campus for insects and spiders on blooming flowers, and enjoying surprises like the turkey family in my previous post, I came across a really big fungus that found a good hiding place in the shade of a big pine where the ride-a-long lawnmowers couldn't get to it.  This was around 8" in diameter and was very impressive.  Surface texture reminds me of cooking marshmallows over a campfire with finesse.  I was never one to turn them into charcoal. Click on the photo for a closer look.