Besides mushrooms/ gardening - I love to cook on a budget. Pre prepped tonight's meal. I go to Walmart and scan their dates on meat, go back the day before exp. Get it for 1/2. You must go early though. Stuffed CAN peppers/pork/cheese all on sale of course. Cost under 5 for two. I am retired 🤣

Large family of small puffy's on a large decaying log. Happy #thicktrunkthursday #nature #photography

I would love to write a children's book, now that I have the time being retired and all. Wouldn't know where to start though? Congratulations...

Happy #mossymonday Young honeys fruiting on a large log. #mushroommonday

Five years ago we came across this within thirty minutes into a hike way up north. It gave us the creeps so we turned around and left. There was only one and maybe they were just fooling around? Who knows?

I spy with my little eye something very tiny and white. Found around ten today while cleaning up the gardens. So tiny and darn cute 🥰

One of my favourite pictures. Happy #fungifriday

All I could say when I found this was it's VB its VB as I couldn't pronounce the scientific name. Steve just looked at me like "what the heck are you talking about"? Pointed way up in the tree and wow what a beautiful mushroom. I have only found this species once. The gills 👇 #throwbackthursday

One of my hundreds of songs that I love. We will all get through this nightmare. Hopefully ❤️❤️

Got the new lights for our birch on...lol what a project!! Tons of settings but I just put on solid. Maybe come Christmas I will get adventurous. I like simple things. Not sure how I will hang ornaments on it?

The beautiful Duchess of Cornwall flowering in October. Not going to be any more roses this year as most have finished. Started to cut them back, a bit early I know but it will be less for me to do in January. Happy #RoseWednesday one and all.

Made a loaf of brioche as a side for tonight's dinner. Super easy recipe and cost around .50/.75 per loaf. Added in some reishi powder supplement for extra added immunity. Flu season is starting early here. Going for our flu shot this Friday.

Very nice

The incredible Ganoderma tsugae, also known as hemlock varnish shelf on a large hemlock stump. The spores have dropped and is what gives this polypore mushroom the appearance of a thick layer of dust on top. #thicktrunktuesday #fungifriends

Not sure how to ask this question ⁉️ To my American friends as a Canadian seeing all this chaos unfold - is it honestly what is happening? I see so many different things and it's getting so confusing.

Young beech rooters for #mossmonday #photography

It's here. I dislike winter ❄️ just listening to Bare Naked Ladies right now - Odds are. I love this Canadian band. Tragically Hip is next. Hopefully it's not a long winter!! We love many other bands too. We are a music couple. ❤️

My poor grand puppy got neutered yesterday. My son sent me this picture this morning in after surgery pyjamas. He doesn't look too happy. #dogsofbluesky #puglife

Happy #fungifriday

This beautiful scene greeted me today while driving home from town. I live on the top of the hill. I love this time of year when the tamaracks are in their full orange glory and surrounded by bullrushes. Don't like the snow that will be coming soon though. #photography #ontario #canada

For #throwbackthursday some Cordyceps militaris when I was growing them. Such a unique mushroom! #mycology #fungifriends

A large maple tree consuming wire fencing for #thicktrunktuesday All I hear since yesterday morning is gun shots going off. It's deer hunting week in Ontario.

Wood blewits - Clitocybe nuda - formerly Lepista nuda are a beautiful and yummy wild mushroom. At a young age they are a striking lilac colour which varies with age. Bugs love them, and I've have never found them without worm holes. Let's hope the Jays take it home tonight! #fungifriends

Happy Halloween! Out of all the holidays #Halloween is our favourite and we always went all out. When we moved to our new place the neighbourhood kids came over and asked me "who will now decorate" and I felt bad. Being in the country we don't do it anymore. Our Son inherited the mummy thou.

For #throwbackthursday teaching my BIL how to ID elm oyster. He is a bush man and enjoyed the outing. He went home with a bag of winter chanterelles and oysters. Good times, good times. Go Jays Go 🍁 #wantitall

A young cortinarius sp. All cortinarius have a cortina - a web like veil covering over the gills when young. I am still learning about corts and I don't find them often. #fungifriends

We don't usually rake the leaves and prefer to mulch them with the lawnmower and leave. This fall there are way too many so I raked a little today and man it sure is hard on your shoulders. Some horsetail down the side road and I thought it looked like an abstract painting. So pretty.

Busy, busy beaver. It amazes me how they chew through trees this big! It was one of many in the area. #thicktrunktuesday

Monday 27th Oct A winter plumaged Black-headed Gull loafing on Bingham's Pond, Glasgow. I love the colours of the surrounding autumnal leaves reflecting on the surface of the water. #birds

Found this "new to me" a couple months ago and forgot about it. I have no idea what it is as I haven't looked into it, yet. It wasn't very big and dark blueish with an off white trim and robust. Tooth fungus family I think? Anyhoo it sure was pretty.

Received our first frost last night, leaves are falling fast. I thought this picture was cool with the impatiens still poking out and holding on for dear life. The big maple helps its buddy out. Go jays go, the game is not rigged as dump says. What a freaking idiot!! May the best team win ❤️

The colours of these fungi remind me of shells on a beach. #Fungifriends.

Cleaning the eaves today and a job I don't enjoy. Got down from the ladder and ran into these tall beauties. I think they are from the genus of Psathyrella which is over 400 different species. Go jays go!!

Last night Steve brought up Baba Vanga and her predictions. Some of her predictions came true esp. 9/11 . In 2025 she predicted that humanity will make contact with extraterrestrial life, possibly leading to a global crisis? 👇

A large cluster of Peziza varia. Peziza is a large genus of saprophytic cup fungi that grow on the ground, rotting wood or wood chips. It fruited in my mush yard where I put my spent mushroom fruiting bags. #fungifriday

The Canadian national anthem is going to be lit tomorrow. Go jays go! I'm not much into sports but I do remember 1992 + 93 frenzy I tell ya!! Everyone was wearing BJ attire "everyone" and talking about the Blue Jays. We deserve this and we need another frenzy. God help us all ❤️🍁❤️ #wewantitall

Ran into an old friend. A massive moss covered stump in my favourite old growth forest. Magical, I wished I was a fairy to hide inside. #nature #forestlife #moss

This saddens me that it has come to this and I too remember "the world wide web" and how exciting it was at the time. Our first computer was the size of a lg microwave. It connected us all over the world and like Carney said "society is now more disconnected" How true and sad at the same time.

For #throwbackthursday lets go back to 2018 and our first foray with the Toronto MS in Huntsville ON. 1st pic is the 1st day and the last day with mushrooms all over the place including the floor! A bumper season they told us. An overwhelming weekend to say the least when we were such newbies.

Look at this big bad boy!! This is the one I left to spore out, l cut it and placed it in another area of my mush yard leaving behind the stem. The other one is going in my tummy. I love wine caps and their gorgeous purple gills. Spore print is dark purple too. #mushrooms #organic #growyourownfood

Found two nice clusters of velvet shanks yesterday on our property on a different dead elm. Harvested for tonight's supper. If you find v.shanks look in the same area come spring as morels love dead elms. #photography #mycology #fungi

Went to Walmart today and it drives me nuts that prices go up by the day/week and is constant. I wanted to buy chipits for cookies and one small bag is 6.49 - I will now make oatmeal!!! My sourdough bread is up .50 so I put it back - 6.97 for a bag of potatoes!!

Cold weather is now upon us and this adorable little guy clinging on for some warmth this morning. #nature

Happy #thicktrunktuesday I have no idea what type this tree is but it is huge and on our sideroad.

Great picture!

Along our property is a side road that hasn't been used for over 50+ years called "the blind 10th" and one of the reasons we bought the place. So peaceful and stunning in the fall and goes on for miles. So sad to see all the huge dead ash trees from ash borer. The road that I find all the morels.

I have only found Spathulariopsis velutipes once. It is an odd little mushroom that looks like a spatula or a canoe paddle. This fungus decomposes conifer wood (usually hemlock) or on the ground around hemlock stumps and logs. #photography #fungifriends #nature

I assumed my wine cap bed was done for the season. Nope not with 19 c weather and rain today - got bit by a mosquito too! There are 2 and look at the size of the hole left by a slug. The stem diameter is the size of a banana. Crazy 😂 I will leave it to spore out as it's mostly eaten already.

Took this picture 3 years ago (early morning) walking by myself in a local conservation area. We were both shocked at the same time and she posed long enough to get this ace shot. A peaceful and tranquil moment. Have a great day, it's going to rain hard for the next 4 days. #photography #nature

Tis the season for mock oyster mushroom - Phyllotopsis nidulans. It has a distinctive orange fuzzy cap when young and the gills are orange as well. This fungus brings bright colours to an otherwise dull forest this time of year. #photography #fungifriends #nature