Temperatures are dropping, rain is falling, and everything is soggy. It’s that time of year that my yard transitions from summer sprout to autumn rot, and that means a multitude of mushrooms have joined the party.

I have almost no practical mushroom knowledge, except that some are delicious, some are poisonous, and they make you grow by and strong if you are a plumber named Mario or Luigi. I also know that the root word myco- usually means we are talking about fungus. Mycology. Mycorrhizae.

So, I could be sitting on a gold mine, or a death trap. Either way, here are some of my current crop which seem to have sprung up overnight, and my unofficial identification of each.

Tall Skinny Creepies. These remind me of the “poor unfortunate souls” in the little mermaid. Or zombie fingers.

Tiny white ones. They’re size and simplicity make them seem dangerous.

Pumpkin spice

Ruffled cymbals

Umbrella in the wind

Buttered dinner roll

The other brown ones