Be afraid ... be very afraid ... mushrooms are evolving brains. Check out the cortex on this new life form.

A newly sprouted pair of Shrooms. By the way, if mushrooms and fungi creep you out you might want to skip over the next bunch of images and wait for m (...)

Cool fungus that caught my eye. At first, there are no Shrooms to be seen in the woods. They hide, you know, until they can evaluate the intruder. Sec (...)

Shroom babysitting a clutch of acorns.

Alrighty then, I haven't posted images for a long while so I'm going to try to remedy that. This will be a Fall sequence that began early in August. I (...)

While some Shrooms use colour to draw attention to themselves, others try to camouflage their presence. This one was hiding amidst fallen Birch bark.

A tiny, delicate cutie perched precariously on the edge of an old stump.

Tiny Shrooms living on the forest floor.

I approached this alien pod with trepidation. Note that I did not try to photograph it from the top.

There is amazing fecundity in the mushroom world.

It is hard to say what this emerging tumescence will become ... a puff ball ... an umbrella ... who knows ... only the Shroom knows!

I mentioned that some fungi use colour. Well, here you go.

Another colorful Shroom.

This one couldn't decide on whether to use colour or camouflage. It was in a dark area so it stood out quite successfully.

The forest floor leaf litter was ... uh ... littered with Shrooms ... literally.

Another tiny, delicate Shroom. The colour attracted me to it and I wasn't sure the camera would pick up that soft pastel. I was wrong.

An experiment? Perhaps. Actually, this was the best angle with which to photograph this Shroom.

A bunch of mushrooms - a Shroom housing project.

I liked the natural montage of this scene.

Some fungi are just plain odd. This is a freshly grown Shroom yet it looks like an old, decrepit Shroom. An interesting strategy to keep from being ea (...)