The diversity and beauty of fungus is miraculous. While walking on the hillside trail looking for Douglas-fir cone fungus Strobilurus trullisatus (Post: Douglas-fir Cone Fungus, 11/25/24), I came across this sparkling Douglas-fir cone. I knelt down on the ground to take a closer look. I magnified it with my camera and found that it was frosted with small, white cups that appeared to have tiny beads of water clinging to their surfaces. Their translucent, white bodies glowed against the dark brown scales of the cone. A fungus had found a home inside of this Douglas-fir cone and blossomed during the recent rains. It decorated its humble abode with small fairy lights to brighten our paths in the waning light and pale gray skies of fall in the Northwest. Thank you.