Honey mushrooms The weather, which most of August had been sunny, relatively cool, and blissfully non-Dog Days-humid, has started turning more true-to-August form, and, given that it looks like we're in for a lousy Labor Day weekend—the end of our wonderful days at the lake—no one around here is too happy. Still, the rain has mostly held off, so my granddaughter and I chanced going out for hikes through the woods. With no downpours in the forecast—those have happened at night—I was able to bring my camera and document one good thing about crummy weather: the rain brought out the fungi. These are Honey Mushrooms, so called because of their color rather than their sweetness. They're also one of the more desirable edible species, but while I've long been a member of what uber-forager Euell Gibbons once dubbed "the cult of the mycophagists," I haven't yet ingested any of these. They're great, however, to photograph.