Twenty Eight Days of Rain, But Who's Counting?

The Anchorage Daily News calls it "Anchorage's meteorological misery streak" which set a record of 28 days of measurable rain in a row.  But the moss and mushrooms are thriving. 

Identifying mushrooms, except for the few I know for sure, is always iffy.  Even with my Audubon Field Guide.  This appears to be a polypore, but that's as precise as I think I can get.  There's a penny in the lower right to give you a sense of scale.  Maybe we can call this the catcher's mitt mushroom.

This is a concrete step in our yard.  The little mushroom in the lower left is the one in the pictures below.

This is a blackish-red russula with a white stem as opposed to the rosy russula which has a pink stem.  Someone's been lunching on this one.

This mushroom is past its prime and naturally recycling. 

As our front yard raspberry patch goes through a period of serious decline, our backyard raspberries are making a resurgence. 

There is something called a cup mushroom, but I think this one is simply old and its cap has curved up as it decays. 

And here's a very fine spider web, low to the ground that seems to be capturing more moisture than mosquitoes. 

And all over Anchorage the amanitas are popping up and offering some color.