During WWII, many Europeans were hungry so they foraged #mushrooms on the forest floor. Many ate them fried on sourdough bread. Tonight's dinner is an homage to my German ancestors: foraged Red-cracking boletes boiled and sauteed in butter with garlic, bread crumbs,salt and pepper on sourdough.

I finished up processing my latest golden chanterelles (Cantharellus formosus) haul by dry sauteing and then freezing them. The excitement of finding a big haul of mushrooms is followed by the long chore of processing them before they go bad. Luckily, chantrelles can last a week+ in the fridge.

Beautiful Lake Quinnault in the evening sun! 🌞 Fall is here. Rain is coming.

I'd rather by sittin by the fire than on my phone, but sometimes I gotta be at home and go to work. Camping is the dream. #camping

This is the cutest Ganoderma oregonense I have ever seen. Standing tall, new, and covered in brown spores that look like cocoa powder. #medicinalmushrooms #fungi #forest #reishi

These gorgeous pink coral mushrooms (Ramaria sp.) are stunning and edible, too. Coral crab cakes are on the home menu tomorrow night. #fungi #foraging #foodie

Another day, another weekend, comes to a close with the setting sun. And with it, our last camping weekend of the year. #sunset #pacificocean

Sunset arrived at 6:40pm PST on 10/5/25 on the Washington coast over the Pacific Ocean.

I found a sea of coral fungi in the rainforest on the Olympic peninsula this weekend. Such beauties!

Waiting for sunset. #pacificocean #wacoast

Just one week until the Quinault Rainforest Mushroom Festival! Hope we see you there!

MycoMap BC—a new initiative by the South Vancouver Island Mycological Society (hashtag#SVIMS), a North American Mycological Association (hashtag#NAMA) affiliated club, to document the fungal and slime mold biodiversity of British Columbia. mycota.com/the-mycomap-...

West coast reishi, (Ganoderma oregonense) is fresh and growing right now deep in the forests on fir trees. It is still very soft! The cocoa powder like substance on the left one is the spores. Some people like to taste them. Other people use the shelf fungus medicinally. I dry and powder it for tea.

A fun club weekend camp and foray on the Wynoochee River in Olympic National Forest last weekend! It's been warm and dry, but the weather changed today. Found me some lobster mushrooms and chantrelles. They are tasty and plentiful around these parts. What are you finding? #cascadia #foray #fungi

Last year's NAMA national camp and foray was held in Randle WA. Packwood is close by and there is sure to be an abundance of choice mushrooms, edible and otherwise, in the Cascades this fall between Mt. Rainier and Mt. St. Helens. #fungi #foray #cascadia #mushroom

An important reminder the USDA plans to close the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, home of the U.S. National Fungus Collection. The public comment period is open until 9/30. I encourage you to submit comments to: [email protected] Why does it matter? www.plantopiapodcast.org/55

The bitter boletes are huge and prolific, but, unfortunately, not very edible due to their bitter taste. It's a fall forest wonderland out there! #boletes #fungi #cascadia

Dyer's polypore grows on living conifer trees and indicates the presence of brown rot. This older specimen has a beautiful deep red color on top with purple grey pores underneath. As the name suggests, it can be used for dyeing yarn or fabric. #fungi #polypores #cascadia

Fall is here and so are the woolly worms! Have you seen them? So cute! #natureislit

Really enjoyed finding this wrinkled crust fungus on an alder log today. It is bright orange and pliable. #fungusfunday

Welcome woman is ready for fall, and ready to welcome new and returning students back to campus. #fallvibes #campuslife

When I'm not looking down (and sometimes up) for mushrooms, I'm scanning treetops for white and listening for birdsong. Millions of birds migrate across Washington this weekend | king5.com share.google/zVPtEplh5mu0... #fungifriday #birdmigration #flyways #lightsout

Enjoying a quiet Friday evening walk at the refuge near my home. Just me and some tree frogs, a few birds, and the highway noise in the distance that almost sounds like the roar of the ocean. Last Friday of summer! Grateful for it all.

How will you use the last six days of summer? When not working, you can find me outside soaking it up as the days get shorter.

Beautiful fresh Ganoderma oregonense, west coast reishi, grows on conifer trees (causes white rot) in the Cascadia bioregion. Medicinal properties are many. Normally hard, this one is so new it's still relatively soft. #mushroommonday

Mushrooms are starting to pop on the Washington coast. What are you seeing?

DNA used to confirm new species of Oregon truffle. Source: Phys.org search.app/C56xE

It feels great to be Canadian! Happy Canada Day!

Not a mushroom. Just the world's largest Western red cedar tree standing tall for hundreds of years on the Olympic peninsula in Washington State.

Only the cutest little oyster mushrooms I've ever seen!

Found these little red beauties growing on decaying wood for the first time today. Tubaria punicea in Latin or maroon madrone tubaria is my best guess. I love the dark rich color contrast against a bed of bright green moss. @southsoundmushroom.bsky.social

Common ink caps are having a party! Coprinopsis atramentaria, I believe. Here today, gone tomorrow. They are just beginning to liquefy into dripping gooey black ink. How cool is that?

Mushrooms, finally! I've been looking for morels all week in my free time, and I found some false morels today under cottonwoods. Verpa bohemica, specifically. The stipes are hollow. Edible when thoroughly cooked. Not sure if I will eat the stipes. @southsoundmushroom.bsky.social

Free #mushroom event happening in #olympiaWA tomorrow. Julie Beeler, author of The Mushroom Color Atlas will be giving a demo and signing her book. Learn how to make dye and paint from mushrooms at Browsers Bookshop. Friday 3/21 from 4:30-5PM #mushroomsforcolor #mushroomart #olympia #mushroomdye

Our 4th annual Spring Mushroom Festival is taking place on Saturday, May 3rd at the building and grounds of Capital Vision Church in Olympia, WA! Interested in being a vendor or volunteer? Send an email to [email protected] for more info. #fungifriends #OlympiaWA #mycology

I promise I'll never post a picture of a spider, unless they're tiny baby orb spiders on a web. I am not into horror.