At the end of summer a friend and I were walking on a trail where the plants seemed to be winding down as the days had become cooler and shorter. Everything in the woods was in shades of brown and grayish tan. Suddenly my friend spotted something bright red, and seemingly out of place, on a rotting log. We bent over this something, trying to figure out what it could possibly be. Up close we could see that the surface of this blob was curiously...