--- In chicagolichens@yahoogroups.com, "chicagolichens"
<chicagolichens@...> wrote:
>
> Sam, it looks like you have photos of an orange colored mushroom (?)
> that isn't a lichen as far as I know. Maybe others can comment.
>

Well, I wondered if that was maybe what it was but I wasn't sure.
Hopefully others will comment.
In the meantime I have a mushroom expert that I correspond with from
time to time so I'll ask his opinion and see if he also thinks it's a
mushroom.