Phoenix

Despite the standing water on the lawn in spots, and the sky spitting on me for the final half hour, I splashed my way through mowing today in a desperate attempt to recover after a week or rain.

When I dropped my first load of clippings in the forest out back I found these unusual brown mushrooms growing up out of my squishy, rotting grass pile. Usually I see the white ones, but these were a lot funkier.

Taking a picture was really hard — I had to get low to the ground with my macro gear and watch out for being carried away by six swarming squadrons of 'shroom-swooping 'squitoes.