Soft stalactites
It's been an amazing year, what with our abundant precipitation, for fungi, and everywhere you look, the woods are replete with mushrooms. The photo ops are non-stop, and the colors range from white to black and every hue and shade in-between. No doubt there are plenty of colors I can't see, given my red-green colorblindness, but this off-white oddity in an easy view. It's what's known as a tooth fungus and it belongs to a group of mushrooms in the genus Hericium, all of which are characterized by having no discernible mushroom caps and, instead of gills, a collection of living stalactites that droop down to drop their spores. I suspect this one is Hericium americanum, which is very common, especially these days, when it can be found on just about every old log.