In the Garden: Mushrooms

It's that time of year when warmth and moisture conspire to breed some of our yard's most interesting creatures.  These gilled fungi often look like extraterrestrial beings

or like they belong in a zoo.

Still others look like buttons and parasols:

When I googled "Mushrooms that look like coral," I learned that there's a type called Coral Mushrooms:

Once I saw a TV show that featured a guy in the mountains who grew his own morels.  They looked like this:

He encouraged viewers to follow his lead.  It didn't sound too hard.  I briefly entertained the idea, imagining how cool it would be to harvest my own morels, but soon realized that the grocery store was easier.