Gilded with moss

I wish I could remember where I read something described as being "gilded with moss." It's a great phrase don't you think? It's stuck with me, and I'm thinking of it more and as it is the season when the moss returns and my world is once again gilded with moss...
As the trees are loosing their leaves and perennials are dying back (Podophyllum pleianthum shown here) the green of moss is most welcome.

Of course it's also the season of the mushroom, I found these characters on a mossy piece of wood I had by some ferns.
Such detail.
My new seasonal hanging containers on the front of the garage (the ceramic planters are in the house now, to protect them from a freeze) got a mulch of mossy bits.

A weekend outing to Three Bears Recreation Site on the Mollala River resulted in many moss and mushroom photos, no bear sightings though. I think this thin fungus is Xylaria hypoxylon, candlesnuff fungus.
Oh! That frilly edge, the veins, and those two dots...
Who designs these things!?
Yes, I want to hug these mossy branches.

This arrangement reminds me of the wall panels I saw at Terrain last month, only better because they're nature made.
Teeny tiny.
The river is why we were there, Andrew was fishing upstream while I explored.
This one was my favorite mushroom of the day.
Side shot...