Summer's monsoon bred a bumper crop of mushroom photos.
No sooner had Style asked readers to share their snaps than 'shroom, toadstool and "whatever" fungus began popping up in our email mailbox -- almost 1,000.
Those cute, blazing-red buttons that open into the yellow-and-red parasols? Not rare. And shelf-like arcs in astonishingly lovely hues are clinging to a lot of trees. But also, way too many yards appear to harbor disturbing piles of uncooked biscuits. Yuck!
Cheers to the humor of participants like Elaine Wootten of Little Rock, who sent a photo too blurry to use along with a comment too good not to: "When I first saw these, I thought my husband was growing his own golf balls!"
Another tip of the cap to "Cindy" whose email subject line promised "Shroom same size as an oak tree" and delivered exactly that: a little reddish-brown mushroom next to a seedling with four leaves.
Thank you, everyone! All you guys are fun.
-- Celia Storey
Style on 09/13/2016