The antiques and feral cat district

Our first morning in St Louis we went poking around for breakfast and found a listing for a place called "The Mud House." That sounded pretty good, so we ended up in a quaint neighborhood calling itself "Cherokee Antique Row." I quickly found a non-human animal to cozy up to. His truncated ear tip indicates that he's part of a managed feral colony, neutered and vaccinated, but otherwise allowed to roam. I'm not a fan of the practice, but it's better than doing nothing.

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More picnic table fungus

My primary mushroom guide (Phillips) says that Bisporella citrina grows on dead hardwood. Here it's growing on a rotten chunk of picnic table, and I've photographed it in the past on a pine fence rail. Checking multiple sources confirms that it is also known to grow on dead conifer wood.