On Sunday we collected leaves and mushroom photos at the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle – I took a lot of photos, including this one of some Coprinopsis lagopus (Harefoot mushroom).

Easily the most prolific of the edible mushrooms in our yard, Macrolepiota rachodes or the shaggy parasol.

I’m pretty sure this is Agaricus augustus – another classic found in the yard.

Coprinus comatus, the shaggy ink cap, lawyer’s wig, or shaggy mane, lasts barely a day.

I open the window shade, lean over to my daughter and ask if she can see the mountain, “I can Daddy!” It’s the first flight she might remember and it’s just fantastic to see her enthusiasm for “flying taller than Daddy.”

I haven’t been at the computer or behind the camera recently because I’ve spent the last two weekends clearing the mess left behind from the storm of the century – we had some serious snowdown.

A peaceful lazy day with no agenda and, amazingly, some free-time allowed one of my favorite photographic indulgences: walking my yard hunting for mushrooms. I find the varieties of mushrooms simply amazing and love to lay stomach-to-the-ground taking their photo.

We enjoyed our last trip to the Bloedel Reserve enough to become members and membership has its privileges – an annual mushroom walk.

A face-full of spider webs as I hunt for a carpet of mushrooms confirms fall’s arrival.