Xylaria hypoxylon. Candlesnuff spaceship.

Working on a little wood frog carving to go with my beetle.

Opossum doing important opossum stuff tonight

A satisfying scratch 🐥✨

Nepenthes platychila is mainly known for the amazing peristome (collar) on its upper pitchers, but even an immature lower pitcher like this is pretty great. Friendly onychophoran vibes from the fuzz and fringes. 🌴 🌱

Soon.

May have eaten a whole bag of sunchips for breakfast.

Legos are so expensive. :(

Wee garden #Fall #lichend #moss #bryophytes

Drawdown species at Wilstone Reservoir. OK, so we know about the Norfolk Bladder-moss (Physcomitrium eurystomum), Riccia cavernosa, Mudwort (Limosella aquatica)--- but what's the green filamentous stuff? It's the largest constituent of mud-pioneer species. It physically competes with the others.

Just finished washing SO many clothes so I can donate them, but now I have to fold them all.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

The nurse taking my blood today told me she had been taking blood for fifty years and started when she was 16.

Visited my brother today and spent an hour in a rocking chair crocheting. I am in my grandma era.

Might be my best pic yet of a bloom from my Trisetella strumosa mini orchid. You can see the tongue in this one if you look close. #orchids #orchid

I can’t think of many rural terms I like more than “witches’ knickers” - to describe old black bin bags caught in fences, hedgerows and trees.

How much would it cost to have someone do my laundry for me. 'cause this shit sucks.

Urban moss cushions. Sodden in persistent rain. 💚🔬 #iseemoss

A few shots from yesterday's too-late-in-the-afternoon forest adventure. Curse you daylight savings time! #WinterSolstice can't get here soon enough! Thankfully I brought some new lights to continue experimenting with DSLR manual focus adjustments & using focus stacking software. #FungiFriends

I really want to like eating onions because they're in everything, but I just dont like anything about them. I dont like the texture, I dont like the flavor, I dont like how cooked onions look. 💀

'In the winter garden' - my favourite geometric garden aerial that I've ever done! I don't remember if I shared it here or not yet - it has camellia bushes in the centre and beds of winter heather and hellebore :) the geometric landscapes are always more challenging and I love that! #embroidery

There should be an app like Tinder but instead of selfies, people post photos of cool rocks they found, and you swipe left or right based solely on those.

I bought a Kangaroo Paw fern. 👉👈

Our mycologists were taken by surprise this week when a visiting researcher found a curious pink truffle-like fungus under eucalyptus trees in the gardens.

The problem with seeding my large tropical terrarium with as many spore kits as possible, is that that I have no idea what anything is when it comes up. Though it does look cool af and it's fun to see what ends up growing where.

Any fern people know what type of little fern(?) this is that keeps sprouting up in my tropical terrarium? It's started showing up as volunteers. #fern #ferns

Okay, okay. THAT is a flower spike on my Pleurothallis grobyi orchid. First time it's gonna flower for me in the several years I've had it. I must have finally gotten the light, air flow, and fertilizing just right for it. Hnn. Anyway. I'm VERY excited.

Someone has a rare fountain pen I collect up for sale, but it's damaged. :(

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

Illustrations of snow crystals as "actually observed and sketched with the aid of the microscope”, from the 1863 book Snowflakes: a Chapter from the Book of Nature — https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/illustrations-of-snowflakes-1863/

Idk why I never thought that actually you're allowed to wear a winter scarf indoors. It just feels like something you take off once you get inside. But it's keeping me so warm right now. 💀

Another warp off the loom – this pattern is "twill complication" from Davison's "green book." I really love point twills! This is my antique Scandinavian loom from Minnesota. I call this loom "Shorty," because it is unusually small for its age and type. #weaving #fibersky 🧶

Okay, slight change of plans. We're attempting to darn one of my favorite socks that's getting threadbare. I also carved the darning egg with a handle and it's working so well.

Okay. Here's the plan. Gonna take a nap until 7pm. Then I'm gonna get up and refill two (2) jugs with reverse-osmosis water to refill the tank on the misting system for my large terrarium before it runs out again. After that we shall crochet for an hour-ish and then bed! Before 3am! 🫡

I just remembered you can make 'yarn' out of scraps of old clothing and bedsheets. Imma make a rag rug. Not sure if I want to do a braided one or a crocheted one. Hmm.

Doing another lap blanket with a moss stitch this time. Which looks really nice, but is a yarn eater. I'm loving this color though. It's Peaches & Crème in Oasis. But I need like, six more balls of it to get the blanket size I want. Lmao. #crochet

based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens

I made this arrangement for the Thanksgiving table and wanted to share it before I change it for Christmas. #rocktumbling #rockpolishing

Tis freezing at work today.

Forgot it's winter now and I have to adjust my large tropical terrarium to account for the drop in humidity in my house. This is basically putting more saran wrap over the top of the wire lid to trap in more humidity, but I did add fans this year which will change things a bit.

A stick fell out of an Oregon oak tree completely covered in tree lungwort, maybe textured lung lichen, and moss. This whole clump is about 8 inches long. I’ve never seen the blue stuff before! #StunDay #Lichen #Fungi #FungiFriends #PNW #Moss #ISeeMoss #iNaturalist #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice

This entire fence has been pulled out of the ground and rolled up. It's still providing fertile surfaces for some nice lichens and mosses, though. #FencepostOfTheWeek

Someone is using a drill at 6am and if they dont stop, imma bite them.

Three little trees, painted with acrylic markers~ 🎄 Which one’s your favourite? #TraditionalArt #ArtsAndCrafts

Hart’s Tongue and Wall Rue at Bradford-on-Avon station #FernFriday

Tarzane Group has an amazing sale right now for mini and micro orchids, but I'm over my budget for the month. :(

Wait? Did I showe you the ddaeng brooch? #bts #btsfanart

Oh god, I ate too much. 🤢 We did have the butternut squash I grew this year though and it was delicious.

Finished the vintage clock I was working on. 🙌 Not sure the time mechanism is working properly, but thats a problem for later me. I'm just happy it looks nice and is put back together.

The sea slugs are my best selling magnets so far, & it makes me happy because this type of item has been slow to take off, but I really enjoy making them! You can find every magnet here: evanskyarts.com/en/collectio... #art #handmade #SmallBusiness #ShopSmall #Artist #Sea #Ocean #GiftIdeas