A beautiful pair

Maybe a Lichen Agaric??

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Excellent lighting and textures ... excellent details too ... well taken and a great find Anne!!

Thanks, Art - I always wonder every time I see/photograph a tiny mushroom like this - is it a mushroom or the lichen that grows mushroom-like "bits". Gotta dash out to a meeting right now, but will take a look at your link later. I think one has far fewer gills, for a start?

This is a previously posted photo of Lichen Agaric / Lichenomphallia ericetorum - ID was confirmed, so I know for sure that these "mushrooms" belong to a lichen. Don't know about the top image. I have seen other photos, though, that look just like my top image.

""Lichenomphallia is a genus of lichenized Basidomycetes or club fungi which has spores produced on club-shaped basidia. The lichen fungus resembles a mushroom and the algae are concentrated in special tissues or lobes at the base of the fruiting body. This plant is found in both books on Lichens and books on Mushrooms as Omphalina."

OK, maybe a Golden Trumpet Mushroom (Xeromphalina campanella) ... LOL

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Ha, Art, and so it goes on, which is why mushroom ID is so impossible! I guess you need to know what it's growing on, if there's any algae around it, etc., etc., etc.. Will have to be content, I suspect, with just a pretty picture : )