A brainy-looking scattered rock posy (Rhizoplaca subdisrepens) lichen with and even brianier growth. NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fingifriends Photo covers about 3cm, left to right,

Winter is a time for coming home

Here are some nice mushrooms

Look who I got to chat with today. 😊

To me, it’s art. #slimemold #myxomycetes #fungifriends

Chocolate Tube Slime Mold (Stemonitis sp) on a spruce tree cone. The slime mold is about 1.5cm wide. #slimemold #fungifriends

The annual harvest has begun. 🐝 #bees #masonbees #nativebees #osmialignaria #blueorchardbees

I haven't been taking many pictures the last couple of weeks, (and today it's pouring rain), but here's a photo I took on Christmas Eve three years ago, of a single green lacewing egg in my garden. Think of it as a wrapped present with a bug in it. 🎁🌿🐙📷 #bugsky

Elegant Orange Sunburst Lichen. Northwest Territories, Canada. #Lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Saw a new slime mould today, possibly a Stemonitus. Checked it again a few hours later on the way back and the ends had small red drops. #SlimeMould #FungiFriends

A colorful memory of a past time in a forgotten place. 🍄 #fungifriends #slimemold

Pucker up. 🍋🪩🤭 #fungifriends

Lichen collage on lakeside rock. Northwest Territories, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Our big mama maple had a surprise on her east side. 🍁🤭 #fungifriends

Chocolate tube slime mold on a sprig..of moss. Stemonitis sp. NWT, Canada. Slime mold is about 2cm wide. #slime #myxo #fungifriends

Chocolate eggs. 🍨 #fungifriends

Lil’ toofy muppets living on their fir cone. 🍄‍🟫🌲 #fungifriends

Fairy footsteps. 🧚‍♀️🍄 #fungifriends

Broke a record this weekend for the absolute latest sowing of garlic ever. 🧄🌱 Let’s hope climate change is good for something - good luck little noodles.

Day 14 of #ArtAdventCalendar I spotted this lovely Great Horned Owl while driving, pulled over & used the railing on a bridge to steady my camera. You can see the sunrise in its eyes… 🪶 1/80, f/6.3, ISO 1000

Another instalment of Slime Mold on a Stick. NWT, Canada. #slime #myxo #fungifriends

Helicopter with passengers. 🚁 #fungifriends

Slime mold on a stick. NWT, Canada. Photo covers about 5cm in height. #slime #myxo #fungifriends

Big 🌧️ = Big 🍄‍🟫 #fungifriends

A rare wild teapot. Or a Cladonia lichen:) Teapot (or lichen) is about 1.5cm high. Northwest Territories, Canada #lichen #fungi #fungifrienda #teapot

Everyone is running for high ground. 🍄‍🟫 #fungifriends #springtail

Slime mold, Arcyria stipata. This specimen is about 3” across. At Yellowknife, NWT, Canada.

This was a fun find today! I believe these are Insect-egg slim mold, Leocarpus fragilis, hanging out on the upper reaches of the stipe of this likely Red Pinwheel fungi, Marasmius plicatulus. #FungiFriends #SlimeMold #Fungi #Nature #Moss #MossMates

Sphagnum moss spore capsules. #Newfoundland, Canada. #moss #bryophyte #fungifriends #hiking

Parenting. 🍄‍🟫 #fungifriends

Jackpot! 🎰🍄🤗 I was admiring the 🍋🪩 and then I flipped the wood over. #fungifriends

--in which you can better see the eyes and mandibles on the new babies, plus see both structures clearly showing through the shells on the still-unhatched eggs. (Btw, mama earwig was close by in a burrow. She didn't want to come out into the light, so I carefully replaced the rock.)

Got nice and close so I could really see how they got their name. #splitgill #fungifriends

Lunchtime wander. 🤩 #fungifriends

First ever purple!! 💟 #fungifriends

Stop! Breathe. Celebrate you today😌

I was photographing a globular springtail (Dicyrtomina saundersi) in the garden, when a juvenile "elongate" springtail came scurrying into view. Remarkably, they're both reasonably in focus with this single shot. Two for the price of one! #collembola #mesofauna #macro #photograph

Still giving. 🌱 #yarrow

Crackling fire. 🔥 #fungifriends

youtu.be/UfzOskJELew 🌱

Rakefest 2025 🍁 Go huff some leaves! 🍂🌱

Ubiquitous? Maybe. No less fantastic. 🪺 #fungifriends

Got twig? #fungifriends Oh, how I love a magical marasmius. 🤍

Colosseum. 🪾

a friendly star

The flower gem

“… The leaf has a song in it. Stone is the face of patience. Inside the river there is an unfinishable story and you are somewhere in it and it will never end until all ends. … The song you heard singing in the leaf when you were a child is singing still. …” ~Mary Oliver “What can I say?” 2010

Follow you home

Still at it! 🌸🌱

Frothy. ☕️🎃🪺🍄‍🟫 #fungifriends