Starting up the trail to the top of the ridge. The path is short but very sandy and very up and down.
The pairs of curly leaves caught my eye.
A large sheet of bark has come off this dead tree, revealing the white thread-like Mycelium which are the fungal bacterial colonies which produce the Polyspores that you so frequently fine covering dead wood.
And here we have a bracket fungus which is the fruiting body of the underlying Mycelium.
Lovely lichen.
Sometimes I like best the final stages of the mushroom after it has released its spores.