Frozen in time. 🆒 Sorting out tubes that were filled by last summer’s grass carrying #wasps. 🐝

These were an absolute treat to find today! Successional Ear-pick fungi, Auriscalpium vulgare. #FunkyFungi #FungiFriends #Fungi #Moss #Photography

LOOK what just arrived today, @loriweidenhammer.ca ! It’s gorgeous and so packed with information. Beautiful photos as well. Can’t wait to dive in 🌸🐝🌺🌻🐝🧑‍🌾

Welp, I can tell you what I wasn’t expecting this morning. 🫤

So much beauty as last summer’s leaves slowly fade away.

Elegant orange sunburst lichen (Rusavskia elegans). NWT, Canada. Photo covers about 10cm, left to right. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends #heart

Another itty bitter from the weekend. I don’t think he was a cm long. #bee

Y’all know I love a tiny friend. I give you the helicopter of scale.

Soaking it up. ☀️ #moss

Slime mold patterns on paper II. #slimemold #myxomycetes #fungifriends #natureart

I so appreciate seeing others’ native #bee pictures because it prompted me to check on my cocoons. The boys are back in town!! Let’s go! 🎉

Ceratiomyxa sphaerosperma from Mera, Pastaza, Ecuador. This tiny slime mold makes its spores on little stalks, giving it a distinctive appearance. My favorite feature of these are the glass-like stems. Olympus OM-1 / 90mm macro lens / MC20 2x teleconverter

This morning’s reminder there some things, some events, that the collective hubris of humanity cannot control. And that’s a beautiful thing. #LunarEclipse

Hope to see you at Seedy Sunday in Kelowna! I'm giving a talk on gardening for native bees at 1 pm. #bees

Madly preparing for this show, which I'll install tomorrow. I've made cyanotypes in winter for the first time and I stitched 4 new pieces in the wee hours of the morning! Found bits of cut fabric in my tea this morning. I love this!

Gung hay fat choy! Happy Year of the Fire Horse, which happens to be my sign. (So now you know how old I am!) Today my book launches in U. S. bookstores, so I feel it's and especially auspicious occasion! #victorygardensforbees #bees

First queen of the year. 🐝

There are more honey bees on the planet now than at any time in human history. Keeping hives of domesticated honey bees does not ‘save’ endangered native wild bees - it can make things worse for them. 2/2 #bees #nature #science #education #wildlife #insects #pollinators #biodiversity #environment

NEED TO KNOW: There are over 20,000 species of bees across the planet. Around 90% of these bee species are Solitary Bees. 40% of bee species are endangered. There are only 8 honey bee species. Honey bees are not endangered. 1/2 #bees #nature #science #education #pollinators #worldbeesanctuary

For the day. Rusavskia elegans showing its heart to the world (a bit of a dark heart 😐). NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Hold your loved ones close to your heart today and all days. Look to nature to comfort and soothe your soul. Let kindness bond us together and heal each other's wounds.

Today’s phenology report. 🌱 #osoberry

Sharing my favorite Owl image to commemorate today’s thing. 🪶

A developing (not fully mature) Lamproderma sp slime mold NWT, Canada. #myxomycete #fungifriends

I’m so thrilled to share that today I earned my badass badge. 🤘 My very, very old dryer developed a horrid squeak and rather than buy a new one I chose to research and fix it all by my little ol’ self. I’d swear that 3/4 of the job was vacuuming but now it’s back in business and humming along. 💪

Slime mold, Leocarpus fragilis aka Insect Egg Slime Mold. Newfoundland, Canada. #myxomycete #fungifriends

Bubble Yum. 😋 #fungifrends Old timey nail for scale.

Today’s rhubarb report. 🌱

I hope you reach into your pocket tomorrow and find an unexpected stash of light that you choose to spread around. ✨

Can’t help but hear the sound of suction cups in my head. Poppoppoppop. 🌱 #fungifriends

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.