While splitting wood I noticed a cluster of mushrooms growing on the base of the chopping block. This served to provide me with the merest of distractions and I set aside the axe and took up 'Peterson' Field Guide to Identifying Mushrooms'. While not entirely useless, it did lead me down a couple of wrong paths and one blind alley. Forced to use broad, descriptive terms on google images, I finally fell upon a site that helped me properly identify the fungi (hopefully, it's poisonous anyway, so it's not like there's some sort of culinary calamity awaiting). It is Pholiota limonella, and this opinion is reinforced by the fact that the mushroom does indeed make a rusty spore print. I should've photographed the spore print to include here, but I'm recharging my camera battery right now.
Nothing left to do but get back to splitting those logs.
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