A fancy fungus

Yesterday, 13 August 2014, I had a volunteer shift and afterwards, as I sometimes do, drove to the Reader Rock Garden. Thought I'd better see what flowers were in bloom, as summer is slipping away so fast and I haven't taken all that many colourful images of flowers, garden or wild. They come in so handy during the seven long months of winter that are not all that far away now, breaking the monotony of "white" photos. Some of the flowers were well past their prime, but still make an interesting shot.

I was happy to find several of these mushrooms, especially as I, and others, have had practically no luck in seeing any fungi (yet). Some years are good fungi years and others are not. With a late spring and late summer, maybe it's still too early, though August is apparently the peak of the mushroom season here.