Creatures of the Berkshires

The Pringle Lab recently had a retreat in the Berkshires:
we saw purple strange-shaped fungi,
fireflies at night (I used a 15 second exposure, so you can see their flashes),
the largest mushroom I've ever seen (a Ganoderma applanatum, also called Artist's Conk, because you can etch onto the white undersurface). My advisor, Anne Pringle, can be seen peeking around the tree...
(I used it as an umbrella)
and, last but not least, a red-spotted newt, Notopthalmus viridescens.