Quality stump. #mushrooms #fungi #fungifriends

Such pretty gills. #mushrooms #fungi #fungifriends

Got out for a walk finally. Russula. #mushrooms #fungi #fungifriends

Post chemo treat before the sick hits. Frisko Freeze in Tacoma.

Chemo infusion 2. Doing okay. I think.

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today. abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

I don't like to dress cats up in clothes, but for Halloween I do put stealth costumes on Francie when she's sleeping.

A cute springtail hangs with its white-footed slime mold friends 📷 Canon R5 Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM M, f/4, 1/2, ISO 640 Stack of 9 images 8/29/25 Northern Oregon Coast #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

First day of chemo. Steroids had me up all night.

Pluteus atromarginatus, I think? Pluteus at least. #mushrooms #fungifriends

Recently encountered. #mushrooms #fungifriends

Every day is #UKFungusDay for me.

So, turns out I will be getting chemotherapy and radiation therapy after all. The next 3 months I'll be doing chemo, starting the 14th. Not looking forward to it, but better than cancer. Anyway, here's a Russula for the #mushrooms folks, from Second Beach last month.

Most cup fungi don't fluoresce a lot, but ultraviolet light reveals unusual chemistry in this unknown Helotiales from Monteverde, Costa Rica. #FluorescentFungi #Monteverde #CostaRica #Mycology #UVPhotography #Fluorescence #FieldMycology #fungifriends

Cancer update. My first day of artificial menopause has gone completely normally. No trouble yet. However, I will be getting radiation therapy this fall/winter. Still no final word on chemo.

Autumn is slowly making its way to the Netherlands. Can't wait to work on my Mushrooms in their Natural World Series again next month.

Hydnellum peckii, I presume? My first time finding it. Near LaPush, Washington.

Second Beach, Washington.

Second Beach, Washington.

Second Beach, Washington.

Fry bread tacos from Longhouse Cafe in Forks, Washington today. Beef birria, pulled pork, and beef chili. Delicious! Rez burger also looked good for next time...

Bogachiel River, Washington.

Out in the Olympics. #mushrooms #fungifriends

First of the #mushrooms, right at my camp site. #fungifriends

Stowaway just rode halfway across Washington state. #prayingmantis

Crescent Lake

Crescent Lake

Crescent Lake in the Olympics.

Crossing the mighty Elwha.

Olympic foothills.

Hood Canal Floating Bridge.

Hood Canal.

Crossing the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.

A little good news for me: my breast cancer is stage 1, and I won't be dying from it any time soon. 🥳 Remaining treatment will involve inducing menopause and taking aromatase inhibitors. Radiation and chemo are unlikely to be useful in my type of bc, but haven't been completely ruled out yet.

Forest Bug smiley eggs! #eggs

It’s dangerous to go alone Take this

I survived my #mastectomy. Right boob is bye bye. I'm exhausted.

From Federation Forest in the Cascades, a couple weeks back. #fungifriends #mushrooms

Another near the White River. #fungifriends #mushrooms

Woolly Kate #tomatoes I'm growing this year. Yup, they're fuzzy and blue on purpose. #gardening

From Federation Forest. #mushrooms #fungifriends

She's rather foreboding for summer. #Tahoma

Thimbleberry, not quite ripe yet. #foraging

#fungifact 🍄📷 Cortinarius collinitus after the rain. The blue-girdled Webcap is typically found in spruce woods. Cap and the stem are covered in a gelatinous slime, which is typical for this subgroup of webcaps Myxacium. Edible but because of the many toxic lookalikes not recommended. #fungifriends

The White River today.

Someone found the tasty bit under the bark. #fungifriends #fungi

Tapinella, I think. #mushrooms #fungifriends

Federation Forest today. #pnw