Abundant Summer Fungi

 The summer this year has come with plenty of rainfall.  The heat and the humidity have created an ideal environment for fungi to sprout and grow.  In the past few weeks, just walking on the trail surrounding the large pond of Brightwood Park, I saw a variety of them.  Some are colorful like opera performers and others are like ballet dancers or gypsy dancers.  I particularly marvelled at red jelly fungi.  They seemed to be here for a special exhibition, appearing one day and gone the next day.  The patterns looked like work presented by designers.  Some looked like cute stuffed animals.  Others were like a touch of the magic brush in an artist's hand.  

If you are interested, you can look for a clown face wearing a chef's hat in one of the polyporaceae fungi.  You can also look for two slugs crawling among dried up red jelly fungi.

I included a few pictures of the sun shining through the woods and spraying the light on tree leaves.  These were taken this morning, before the police department announced closing the park because of coyote sightings.

Also included is the recording of the dancing performance by a psaudopollenator using a flower as the stage.