Beech with a large gall (12" plus)

Some brown showing through.  Inonotus obliquus?

Here is something on a Black Bitch.

Disturbed, on top, by my walking stick to see that it is soft.  Bill Y thinks it is Gypsy moth eggs.

Cheese Polypore on Black Birch.

Colorful Violet-toothed Polypore - Trichaptum biforme