Look at the first photo on this page: http://www.capsandstems.com/Fuligo_septica.htm
That looks awesome! I'd love to find that. I wonder if it's a specimen of Fuligo septica... http://waynesword.palomar.edu/slime1.htm
Just tossing a guess out there...Hericium erinaceus?
The following fungi seem to arise in Dec-Jan down here in the north Olympic Peninsula (WA) area... Armillaria mellea Bisporella citrina...
Well...now that I see gills in your second post--forget everything I previously posted. Perhaps you could look up Split Gill (Schizophyllum...
I wonder if they might be old, rotten specimens of Sulphur Shelf (Laetiporus sulphureus)--they bleach-out around here like the ones in your photo....
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v190/stormbythesea/Fungi/Unknown3.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v190/stormbythesea/Fungi/Unknown31.jpg...
Someone has identified this as Mucronella pendula...
Does anyone know the genus? Thank you! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v190/stormbythesea/Fungi/064.jpg
Look up photos of Peziza domiciliana (Domicile Cup Fungus)...
Your mushroom also reminds me of a species of Laccaria...
1. Species of Stereum? 2. Seems like Trametes versicolor... 3. Species of Polyporus--similar to P. badius or P. hirtus? 4. Hypholoma or...
Might the first one be a species of Daedalea; the second one be a species of Thelephora?