Thankfully he is just being a ding dong standing on uneven ground, keeping watch for squirrels. Your dad is right about ubiquitous as I just walked the woods again and they popped up everywhere.

Maybe an older resinous polypore but I am not the best with shelf fungus. Hope that helps.

Oh yea, I had a nice meal.

The veiled bolete is very cool. Great picture.

You may already know but old man of the woods bruises a deep red, always cool to see or show kids.

That is a ghost pipe. He is not a mushroom but a parasitic plant. Just recently people started losing it over ghost pipe tincture, I have been in the woods all my life and had not heard people doing anything with them.

Sign me up. I am ready to leave the office and kick it on the beach fishing.