Father Pitt believes this is some species of Sarcoscypha, but further than that he is unwilling to go (and apparently even mycologists have trouble unless you give them a microscope), and he may be wrong about the genus anyway. But it’s a remarkably bright red. It was growing on a stick in the leaf litter near the Trillium Trail in Fox Chapel.
A very decorative fungus growing on a log deep in the woods in Bird Park, Mount Lebanon.
Two different kinds of fungus growing on decaying logs in Bird Park, Mount Lebanon.
In Bird Park, Mount Lebanon.
Fall colors today in Bird Park, Mount Lebanon. Sassafrass (Sassafrass albidum) is especially colorful right now, with some trees turning red and orange shades and others bright yellow.
Beside the Tom the Tinker Trail in the Kane Woods Nature Area, Scott Township.
Trying out a new camera. Actually, it’s twelve years old, but it just arrived, and twelve years old is newer than most of old Pa Pitt’s cameras.
In Bird Park, Mount Lebanon.
