Amanita's everywhere! These were all spotted earlier this month but I haven't had the time to post them. #FungiFriends #Fungi #Nature #Macro #Photography

A couple of observations from last week. All from the same tree I've been observing over the past 4+ years. #Fungi #FungiFriends #Insect #Molt #Slug #Arthropod #Macro

I spotted these newly emerging Western Spotted Coralroot yesterday (Corallorhiza maculata var. occidentalis) #Orchid One of my favorite non-photosynthesizing plants! #FungiFriends #Fungi #Myco-heterotropic Can't wait to snap pictures of their tiny flowers! #BloomScrolling #MacroPhotograpy

Look Ma, no hands! One of the resident Chickaree / Douglas Squirrel stretching while scoping out the yard. #Nature #Squirrels #Photography

A few of yesterday's observations. Salal flowers/stems have tiny sticky hairs that apparently trap insects! I think the pair might be pesky mosquitoes. Thanks Salal!! I love Ground Cones! One of the handful of non-photosynthesizing plants here. 🍄📷 Thimbleberry! #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Nature

Check out this adorable springtail hanging out on this desiccated fungi, that I believe was an orange jelly before drying out. #Fungi #Arthropod #Moss #Macro #Lichen

This was a fantastic find! Look at all those itty-bitty-teeny-tiny mushies on this stick! Moved from a quiet stream to a nearby liverwort & moss covered bank for these shots. Some were so tiny I couldn't see them with my naked eye. (37+ total) #Fungi #Moss #Liverwort #Nature #Macro #TinyShrooms

A couple shots each of an #Edible Morel mushroom on the left and the #Toxic false Morel fungi to the right. I found another of the Morel nearby but unfortunately dropped my phone on it while taking some test shots. Thankfully it did not crush it and it'll still be eaten.

I spent a good 25 minutes watching this #Spider, as per the time stamps. They were all over this #Fungi, that initially drew my attention. All under the watchful eyes of another of the same species perched up on a stick not an arms length away. #FungiFriends #Nature #Macro Bonus!! #Weevil

I just finished a fantastic hammock session reading my childhood friend Robin Dembroff's book Real Men on Top where they explore how the patriarchy is exceedingly detrimental to everyone, including men. The only winners are the powerful/wealthy in our system. I highly recommend this topical tome!

All 3 of these images of this Questionable stropharia were made of the same 139 manually focus adjusted sequential pictures, focus stacked/edited to demonstrate my process. See AltText for brief explanation. Animation of 37/139 images below. #FungiFriends #Fungi #Macro #Photography

Found my first of the year grouping of Honeycomb Coral Slime Mold, Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa. Found on the bottom end of a fallen Douglas Fir sapling. #SlimeMold #FungiFriends #Macro #Photography #Nature

Check out this cluster of Inocybe fungi hanging out on top of a mostly decomposed moss covered stump. An focus stack of 18 images. See the animation below with 6 of those images in sequence to demonstrate how much the focus adjusts per shot. #FungiFriends #Fungi #Nature #Macro #Photography

I spotted these inkcaps in the woods yesterday. Found growing from the center of a rotting multi-trunked Pacific Madrone. #InkCap #Fungi #FungiFriends #Macro #Photography

I believe these are Cubed Fold Truffle, Hydnotrya cubispora. It's definitely in the Hydnotrya genus. A video uncovering the partially buried one in the first picture can be seen below as well as an animation of the large truffle shuffling. #FungiFriends #Fungi #Nature #Truffle #NonEdible

We got a little much needed rain this morning which brought the adorable land molluscs out to chow down. I see their evidence on fungi all the time but first I've observed them munching on lichen. #Snails #Slugs #Lichen #Fungi #Drought #FungiFriends #Native

A couple of #FungiFriends posing in front of their protector, a regenerating Western Swordfern clump. The larger is a Questionable stropharia, Stropharia ambigua growing from the forest floor and the other, a tiny unknown fungi buddy, growing from a fallen stem. #Fungi #Nature #Macro #Photography

First Gnome Plant sighting of the year!! #Myco-heterotrophic I love me some non-photosynthesizing plants, because without chlorophyll they need #FungiFriends to thrive! I can very mush so relate! Hoping to be able to provide a few updates as it grows! #Fungi #Macro #Photography #Bloomscrolling

Let's play #SpotTheDifference!! The cut end of this fallen tree had an absurd variety of life! #AltText for details. At least 4 unique species of #Fungi, 3 species of #SlimeMold and 4 species of #Insects can be spotted in these shots in addition to the moss. #FungiFriends #Macro #Photography

Uncovering a stocky infested amanita that had recently burst forth through the duff. Found hanging out under the protective cover of a large Evergreen Huckleberry. The 2x images that went into this animation can be seen below. #FungiFriends #FungiFriday #Mushroom #Mycology #Fungi #GIF #Animation

Uncovering a hidden amanita just barely poking through the mossy covered forest floor. A series of 5 shots went into composing this animation. Check out the tiny insect in the last frame. #GIF #Fungi #Macro #FungiFriends #MushroomMonday #Insect A few more images from this scene can be seen below!

Check out these Pacific Trillium, Trillium ovatum, in various stages of maturity posed perfectly beside their #FungiFriend, who I believe is a Questionable Stropharia, Stropharia ambigua. #Fungi #Macro #BloomScrolling #Pollen #Sneezy

This gorgeous fungi was providing succor to at lest one mite and a tiny fly. #Fungi #Macro #Insect #Arachnids #FungiFriends

The Pacific Trillium has really been popping over the past few weeks. A photo of one of the already flowering beauties seen on yesterday's hike through the forest. #Trillium #Nature #BloomScrolling #PNW

This was a fun mature trio of fungi we found posing perfectly among the moss. #Fungi #Moss #FungiFriends #Macro #Nature A bonus closeup of the left fungi can be seen 👇

Had some fun experimenting with lighting last night with this fir cone mushroom. Unsure the species here. #Fungi #FungiFriends #Nature #Moss #Macro An animation and different lighting setup version can be seen 👇

This was a fun find! Look at all that slime mold in various stages including being consumed by #Fungi! #SlimeMold #FungiFriends I'll have to get some good side shots over the coming days to help with ID. But any educated guesses from this one @regularslimeguy.bsky.social & @nuiipointer.bsky.social?

Animation of Milkcap, genus Lactarius, oozing latex after being cut. Found on our walk this evening. #Fungi #FungiFriends #Macro #Photography #GIF Photos to follow over the next few days.

Animation of a shy Pacific Banana Slug. #GIF #PacificBananaSlug #Moss #Nature #Photography

The final posting for tonight of bonnet fungi emerging from the moss covered forest floor. This one though with a curious springtail hanging out on top of the cap. #Macro #Photography #Fungi #FungiFriends #Springtail

A grouping of tiny bonnet fungi emerging from the mosses. #MushroomMonday #Fungi #FungiFriends #Macro #Moss

A tiny bonnet fungi emerging from the mosses. #MushroomMonday #Fungi #FungiFriends #Macro

A fun scene of threes spotted in the forest last night. Bonnet fungi triplets, 3 species of moss and a bracken fern...famously triangular... #FungiFriends #Fungi #MossMates #Moss #Photography

Check out that stunning pair of Green-pea Mushroom Lichen spectacularly towering above the stump they and their other lichen and moss buddies call home. #Lichen #Moss #LikenLichen #FungiFriends #MossMates

A handful of winter scenes from last week to celebrate today being Spring Equinox! I loved spotting these bonnet fungi popping their cute little caps out of the snow banks. #FungiFriends #SpringEquinox #Snow #Fungi #Lichen

A youngling & newly selected primordia. Backdropped by Siberian miner’s lettuce, Claytonia sibirica. Fungi are Stropharia genus, likely Questionable Stropharia, Stropharia ambigua. Too young to know for sure. Check out their uncovered mycelial cords. #FungiFriends #FungiFriday #Fungi #Photography

Another fun Ear-pick fungi, Auriscalpium vulgare, with bonus triplets of Stalked Hairy Fairy Cup fungi, Lachnum virgineum. Observed last night on our evening walk in the local forest. #FungiFriends #Photography #Fungi #Moss #Nature #Cone #Forest #PNW

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

And the snow continues! But is slowly turning to a wintery mix. I recorded this scene with my older DSLR with a good external microphone. Subpar video but the audio of the birds happily singing in the snow is magical. Unmute to listen to the cacophony of #BirdSong #Snow #SnowDay #Birds #Nature

Winston was finally in his element this morning with the heavy snow that is still coming down as I type this. #Dogs #Snowday #Snow #Nature #Photography

More signs of spring! I believe this is an Orange-rumped Bumblebee, Bombus melanopygus. Found today, exploring the exterior of a Western Red Cedar with bore holes galore. #BumbleBee #Nature #Spring

A shot from this weekend. #MushroomMonday A fly hanging out on what might be a Honey Pinkgill observed emerging from a bed of moss. #Fungi #FungiFriends #Moss

A Sea Star hoarding their Dollars....can't trust the sand bank!!! I believe this Ochre sea star, Pisaster ochraceus, was actually making a meal of these sand dollars. Observed today at low tide at Kopachuck State Park, Washington State. #SeaStar #Kopachuck #Beach #SandDollars #Photography

A moss bell duo. Having some fun playing with shallow depth of field. #FungiFriends #Fungi #Moss #Photography

Today was spent mostly exploring fungi in beds of moss. Check out these moss bells. #FungiFriends #Fungi #Moss Repost with higher resolution picture.

A pair of bird's nest fungi nestled amongst the mosses. #Fungi #Photography #FungiFriday #BirdsNest #FungiFriends #Moss

A couple more focus stacked shots from today's visit to the forest. #FungiFriends #Fungi #Photography

A couple more shots of another section of the mica cap fungi found today. These shots better exemplify one of my top 3 favorite words, #Deliquesce, or to become liquid, related to decomposition. Which is what the inky caps are known for & aids in spore dispersal. #FungiFriends #Fungi #Photography

Todays fungi group photo is the mica cap, Coprinellus micaceus. #EdibleFungi The species is great at #Bioaccumulating heavy metals so while they might be delicately tasty, if you plan on consuming be mindful of where you collect. #FungiFriends #Photography

The log that keeps on giving. All of these were found on the same log that always has something interesting going on. Today at least 2 distinct species of slime mold and 2 fungi, including a pair of tiny eyelash cup fungi, Scutellinia scutellata. #FungiFriends #SlimeMold #Fungi