These pics are from the archive. This is the most colorful stage of the lifespan of cedar apple rust, a fungus also known to the latins as gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae. These shots are from last spring, take in the family backyard on Nantucket Island. This is one wonderfully bizzare lifeform: it has a two-year journey that necessitates windborne travel between two different species of trees: something from the rose family, often apple (malus), and eastern red cedar (actually a juniper). Here, in the island's wet, wet spring, the telial horns are blooming.
Uh, Captain, I think something's made it through the airlock....
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