Mushroom Monday - Indian Summer Doldrums

It is the doldrums of Indian Summer for this #mushroommonday

Indian summer is a brief time in fall where it gets hotter than summer before snapping into cold. This is of course a bad time for finding mushrooms.

I was able to find this berekeley's polypore, but sadly it was tough and dried out by the time I found it.

If you can find them right when they are forming they are almost as good as chicken of the woods. Now this thing is as tough as wood.

I took my daughter on a walk through the forest. These dried out old polypores were on a tree we walked by.

I thought it might be artist's conk but they seem to be turning black unlike artist's conk which remains white.

Here is a strange dried out copper looking mushroom inside a dead tree.

This reminds me of a mushroom that @littlebee4 found recently poking out from under some bark. Sadly I wasn't able to find the ID on it yet...

This dead tree had an interesting maple pattern. I've seen guitars made out of this pattern of wood and they look amazing I believe it is called spalted maple.

Here is the dead tree where we found the mushrooms. It is also a chair eerrr more like a toilet lol.

There were also some red belted polypores inside the toilet tree chair too.

Sadly these are all the mushrooms I found, now its off to play in the shelter made by a bigfoot.

That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)