Stumped

Pun intended. I'm stumped – are the mushrooms on the stump edible or are they the pretty ones?

My first thought would be let’s go for the ones that look like the button mushrooms in the store.

  

There must be something wrong with the bright colored ones; they seem to say pick me. The wet weather not only produced an abundance of mosquitoes this year but there must have been a dozen or more different kinds of mushrooms that popped up in my yard. I suppose some were fungi but I'll leave that up to the experts. Some wild mushrooms are deadly and some will make you wish 

you hadn't tried them (vomiting and

diarrhea). While others will take 

you to a land where unicorns and 

fairies live under  rainbow-filled skies.

If you get caught with these you’ll  

be spending time in a world of 

orange or black and white strips.

 

I know two kinds I trust to be edible; 

the springtime morel, which is toxic

 if eaten raw, and the other one is the round puffball in the fall. You also have to be very careful when picking this one.

These are a few that I spotted when 

the camera was close at hand. 

By no means am I saying that they're 

safe to eat, just amazing to look at.