It is the doldrums of Indian Summer for this #mushroommonday
Indian summer is a brief time in fall where it gets hotter than summer before snapping into cold. This is of course a bad time for finding mushrooms.
I was able to find this berekeley's polypore, but sadly it was tough and dried out by the time I found it.
If you can find them right when they are forming they are almost as good as chicken of the woods. Now this thing is as tough as wood.
I took my daughter on a walk through the forest. These dried out old polypores were on a tree we walked by.
I thought it might be artist's conk but they seem to be turning black unlike artist's conk which remains white.
Here is a strange dried out copper looking mushroom inside a dead tree.
This reminds me of a mushroom that 
This dead tree had an interesting maple pattern. I've seen guitars made out of this pattern of wood and they look amazing I believe it is called spalted maple.
Here is the dead tree where we found the mushrooms. It is also a chair eerrr more like a toilet lol.
There were also some red belted polypores inside the toilet tree chair too.
Sadly these are all the mushrooms I found, now its off to play in the shelter made by a bigfoot.
That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)