Damselfly

Damselfly, originally uploaded by Mycologista.
Unusually calm damselfly--usually they flit away as soon as you're in visual range

Bigger, better, Raspberry Slime Mold

Another Raspberry Slime Mold, originally uploaded by Mycologista.

I don't know what I was doing all the other times I was ever in the woods and never saw these. Pretty cool how one absolutely develops an eye for what one is keyed in to looking for (I hear this also applies to life: you see what you're looking for/you get what you expect, etc.).
Here's the tree it was on:

Slime mold day!

Raspberry slime mold, originally uploaded by Mycologista.

While marching to where I thought might be a likely spot to find Black Trumpets (no, I didn't find any, because they are invisible), I found many fascinating and beautiful little slime molds.  These are all quite small (in the grand scheme of things)--the Hemitrichia clavata is little 2mm balls on a stalk. The Chocolate Tube slime is about 1/2" tall.

Hemitrichia clavata

OZONIUM of Coprinellus domesticus

"Carnival Candy Slime," Arcyria denudata

"Chocolate Tube Slime," Stemonitis splendens

                                                                

a bunch of Chocolate Tube Slime on a log

                                    

More on "ozonium" here. Couldn't find much more about it after a cursory online search.