HayleyBoBailey

This is so awesome!!! The veil looks like chicken wire or plastic or something. Remarkable.

I couldn't look at the underside of the cap without destroying them, but later when they fell apart naturally I could see that there were in fact gills, the same orange-brown color and they didn't seem widely spaced... Regularly spaced?

Awesome! I've never seen one growing directly under a log like that (although it makes sense, huh?) Thanks for sharing, I love this plant too :)

Isn't this dog lichen?

Could be! I wish I saw it at the beginning of its life cycle... Thanks for the suggestion. :)

Oh? Awesome, thanks!

Good call Emilie! I'd never heard of that, and I was super curious. I think when I first started looking, everything looked like carrot to me.

Cool!!!! Galls?! You should find out the tree/plant type, then google that plus "galls" so you can find out the likely suspect.
http://www.extension.umn.edu/garden/inse...

They're poisonous, too, which is why you see them totally abandoned by squirrels...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Rose Not sure which kind, though! Pretty.