Last week in Meeks Park, we saw this Hickory tree sporting these mushrooms.  Interesting enough to take a picture.  But I didn't use my Seek app to identify it.  When we went back to the park less than a week later, we saw the same mushrooms looking like this:

 

This time I used Seek to identify them.  They are Veiled Oyster, Pleurotus dryinus.  Wow!!  What a transformation as they "bloomed."

 

It makes me think about growing my own mushrooms.  I ordered mushroom plugs from Sow True Seed, my favorite local seed catalog.  We'll start our mushrooms this winter.  If you are interested in cultivating your own mushrooms, go to https://sowtrueseed.com/ and search for shiitake, or reishi, and you'll see how to grow them.  The process looks complex but doable.  I'm excited.  
 

I love seeing stuff like this, and love sharing with you.

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!