Sorry about that! Anyway – this is a very intriguing fungus that emerged from one of the trees in our woods at ICF in late October. I have not been able to identify it with certainty, but after searching the web, I believe it is called Velvet Foot (Flammulina velutipes). I know nothing else about it, other than it was fun to watch the various stages it went through over the course of two or so weeks.