Worn out. Self-destruction.

 The above photo is the same Shaggy Mane cap that occupies the top photo in my previous post.  This photo was taken five days later, so you can see that from "birth" to total disappearance takes about a week.  My next post will show what has happened at another site.  Meanwhile, the pancake-like mushroom caps in the below photo look relatively unchanged since the day they first appeared.  A total of two weeks so far.  We've had an intense rain last night and most of the day today, so I'll drive out to this spot for another look tomorrow morning.