Fungii by any other name

are still mushrooms to me, or to put it another way, I have just about enough information to be dangerous.
ABC Wednesday has reached the letter "M" and below are several photos I've taken of varieties mushrooms. The latest is this pleasing cluster on top of a tree trunk. Poisonous?
I had to climb down into a ditch bank to get a photo of this large mushroom among the weeds. It was seriously the size of a baseball.
There were several of these dark brown ones around the lake and somehow their leathery appearance and large size made me wonder if it is possible for some to be more poisonous than others.
The sign of many active spores in this bit of grass.

My favorite glistening toadstools popping up in the dog walking area along the curbing.

Finally, the prettiest even though it was in its latter stages. Mother Nature's art pieces. There is something so mysterious about them, almost like a rare decorative item that shows up in the most unlikely places--an antique shop or perhaps in the window of a brownstone you pass every day on the way to the bus. . .Visit Mrs Nesbitt at her wonderful Meme here to join and/or savor all the possible photographs of 'm' words.