Forest Floor Mystery

I have no idea what they are. Call it a forest floor mystery.  

It was a foggy morning on Monte Sano.  To be accurate, the summit of Monte Sano was in the clouds. Windy.  Wet. A front was passing through and the temperature dropped 10-15 degrees. In other words, it was pretty miserable.  I went all morning without getting a picture I wanted but I spotted these on the way down the mountain. Ferns?  Mushrooms? Beats me. Anyway, there are hundreds of them sprouting at the base of a big tree just downhill from the 1/2 mile marker.  I'll be sure to keep my eye on them.

Along the Bankhead Trail at Monte Sano State Park in Huntsville, Alabama.

Nikon D7200 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR

280mm

F8@1/25th

ISO 400

Polarizer

WB on "Cloudy"

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