A sign of autumn, Dyer's Polypores are fun to spot in forests. Carolyn Case found two of them.

And Thane Frivold found one.

Dyer’s polypores are harbingers of autumn, letting us know the season is changing. Their role in nature is to decompose dead wood. They get their common name because dyer’s of wool use these mushrooms to dye the wool. When the mushroom is young, it dyes yellow, then orange, and then as it has aged, it dyes brown. I so enjoy watching them evolve in the forest.

Thanks to Carolyn and Thane for allowing me to share their photos with you here.

Bonus sightings today: Susy Rudy found two King Boletes, boletus edulis, yesterday - the first I have heard of this season. Hooray! And Humpback Whales are being seen today and the past couple of days in large numbers.