'Shroom weather

The Puget Sound Mycological Society had its fair this weekend, and the season is nigh. Years ago I went to see one of these events, and was amazed by the variety of fungi set out for display, like a school science fair of yore. Still have my mushroom identification guide, and still get a touch of fear when I look through it, since there are so many ways to go wrong with these curious growths. A friend told me she'd been to this year's fair, had joined the PSMS, and was taking a field trip soon to start learning how to ID edible mushrooms. My dad used to like to pick field mushrooms, also called "pink bottoms", which are the wild cousin to the ones we buy at the supermarket. Someone saw my mother and him gathering them on a deserted baseball field, and warned him he could be poisoned if he picked the wrong ones. My dad just chuckled and told the guy he thought that would be an interesting way to go.
We're getting a taste of the rain needed to set off the fungi explosion.