The nicely timed rains and warm temperatures combined to bring out quite a few mushrooms in our woods.  Above are just a few of the mushrooms that we have noticed.  Left to right: Platterfull (Tricholomopsis platyphylla), brown cup fungi, Fawn (Pluteus cervinus).  Unfortunately, the only edibles in our woods right now are Oyster mushrooms.  My brother reported seeing a large fruiting of Sulfur Shelf on his way home from work, so keep an eye out for those edibles!

Growing in amongst the charred wood in my fire pit I found this single Coprinus lagopides.  The mushroom measured about 1  1/4". C. lagopides.  As it first emerged the cap was covered with a white coating of veil remnants.  This diminishes with age and, as with other Coprinus sp. this mushroom turns black.  Spore print is purplish black.  The preferred habitat of C lagopides is charred wood.

These small mushroom clumps are popping up all over in our gardens, growing on the highly decomposed wood chips that we used for mulch.  The early tentative ID is Pholiota veris, though we are still waiting for the spore print to verify. P veris is noted as for emerging right after morel season, which would be the case with these specimens.  Also typical of this species is the growth habit in clumps on highly decayed wood.  They also have a ring which is angled upwards at first then deteriorates to a fine, rust-brown ring.  We will do a little more investigation before making a final call on this mushroom.  Because these clumps were all growing on wood chip mulch in that was brought in from who knows where, it is possible that we are finding a related spring species P. vernalis, which occurs in the Northwest US. 
UPDATE: after checking the rust-brown spore print color and looking at many more clumps of these mushrooms, Pholiota veris is the definite identification.         contrib. by A. Small

Dick and Darlene Volmer were lucky enough to pick a couple of meals worth of black morels in our area. Thanks for sharing Darlene and for making our mouths water:)