Autumn Impressions - Purple Mushroom

NIKON D80, 0.0 mm, 1/30 sec, ISO 800 CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

I've found this little fellow on an autumn excursion; I've never seen a purple mushroom before this.

(Oh, by the way: this entry was written by Peter Molnar, and originally posted on petermolnar dot net.)