Corticium roseum Pers. (tentative id.)  Pink crust fungus  Specimens # 1860 & 1861  I went for a short walk yesterday (mostly to get some motion at last, felt like an immobilized lardball after the holidays) and picked some dry branches from shrubs and small trees in the messy, eutrophic planted pine forest near my work. The snow in the forest is only ankle-high (which worries me - few things are worse than a bad drought), so I could walk freely through the shrub thickets. It turned out there's quite a variety of wood-inhabiting fungi that can be found on dry branches in winter. They're hard to spot, but still pretty interesting once you take a closer look.  I think this one is growing on Salix caprea. Crust fungi are hard to identify, but Corticium roseum is one of the few easily recognizable ones (if I'm right about the id, heh).  I'll add pictures of other "winter fungi" soon - most of them are obscure ascomycetes such as Hypoxylon and Diatrype. I don't know anything about them yet, so it's time for some heavy reading :)