Maybe it's the weather.

The mushrooms shown at the right are a variety I have not seen before. The stem is very short leaving the cap just above the height of the grass. The cap is larger than those I've seen before, these being 2 1/2 t0 3 inches across.
Maybe the weather triggered the different species to blossom forth. The visibility was 10 miles and the ceiling added to the gloom although the ceiling was 5500 feet. I am far from being a mycologist but I've never seen this species of mushroom before.
Gold is up again to the new high of $1334 per ounce. Still on the way to $1500.

Some time ago I was corrected when I said the only population of black squirrels was on the Stanford Campus in Palo Alto. From a British newspaper came the following:
The plight of the disappearing red squirrel is being highlighted in events dedicated to the native British species. But its tormenter, the American grey squirrel, is itself being slowly overwhelmed in parts of the country by the little-known black squirrel.... and going after food for the birds,
When Alison Thomas first saw a black squirrel dart in front of her car, she nearly swerved off the road in surprise. That was in July 2003, and as a biologist, she found this strange creature a beguiling research topic - not least to disprove the family joke that she'd imagined it."I decided to start my own investigations and discovered, to my great relief and to the chagrin of my family, that squirrels can indeed sometimes be black and that there is a rapidly expanding population of black squirrels in Cambridgeshire," says Dr Thomas, of Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge.The black squirrel is of the same species as the grey bushy-tailed creatures familiar from park and woodland walks. Its dark coat is the result of a naturally occurring mutation of the gene that governs fur pigmentation. Other than colour, black squirrels have the same size, behaviour and habitat as greys.

Or not.
Different species of mushrooms are proof that we're all on this flight together.
Dick