During our Christmas visit to Timber Cove, various of us took a number of walks. Since it was cool (but nice) and often shaded by large trees, there is a plentiful supply of wild mushrooms pretty much all over the area. While I titled this The Mushrooms of Timber Cove, in fact our first walk was into The Stillwater Cove County Park, where we saw this sign. Of course, in the non-park areas it is OK to pick mushrooms and in mushroom season there are often parking areas along Highway 1 filled with the cars of mushroom-pickers (and occasional sightseers). However, both Sulwen and I know that we don't pick mushrooms since we know next to nothing about safe and unsafe mushrooms. There are many different kinds of mushrooms, some beautiful, and some not so beautiful. With almost no attempt to identify the names of them, I offer to the photograhy and mushrooms nuts, a lot of pictures of mushrooms. If anyone knows the names of any or all of them, I'll be glad to add that to the identification with a thanks to the person supplying the name. Unfortunately, one cannot see the size of the mushroom from the picture (biggest individual mushroom in multiple mushroom shots), but I'll append an S (meaning less that 1 inch), M (meaning 1-3 inches), and L (meaning more than 3 inches). All subject to how well I remember. The order is chronological.

First, mushrooms of Stillwater Cove.