This is my kind of good trouble.

Really enjoyed appearing at San Jose State University this past week with wonderful people (and Pulitzer-winning cartoonists) Ann Telnaes and Mark Fiore, and celebrating Ann's win of the Hearst Award. Congrats, Ann, and thank you, SJSU! @anntelnaes.bsky.social @markfiore.bsky.social

Are there mycologists or publishers out there who need a Mycological illustration artist? This is the only place I’d even ask this question. 😁 Putting it out in the world that I’d love to take on a detailed project & illustrate a fungi book! Willing to build a portfolio if this is a possibility ⬇️

Getting my money’s worth

Old man’s beard, Usnea longissima, dyes the yarn orange but the bath water has no color

It’s mushroom dyeing season at my house

The Oregon Mycological Society Mushroom Show yesterday. Lots and lots of #Mushrooms

More Laccaria for science

All of this yarn was dyed with one species of mushroom, Phaeolus schweinitzii, commonly known as the dyers polypore. What a variety of color from one mushroom

I will definitely do this

Sweet little Queen Bolete. I love mushroom season in the PNW

Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews. #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky

I found a lichen I’ve never seen before. #lichen #pacificnorthwest

Woofer with little subwoofer…. 🥰 Good boy keeping the little one calm… 🐶

Sorry for the string of videos, but this is amazing and makes me wonder if this is what life could be like if we all just logged off the internet. IG risolve

A close-up of the quilt IG risolve

These videos apparently started because someone reacted to him using a scythe. OK, that's all I have to share. Just very cool and thought some people might find his work inspiring. IG risolve

Wow!

Eva Pacheo, a local crochet teacher and her students in Alhaurín de la Torre, in Malaga, Spain, collaboratively created a massive canopy of patchwork crochet to create shade for their community #WomensArt #heatwave

#Swallowtail I’ve only seen one this year

Great idea for mushroom hunters

A small devotional bee icon to be placed on my bee altarpiece

I took screenshots of all my favorite Twitter buddies when I quit the x place last November. I’m just now getting around to seeing if any of them have migrated over to blue sky and I’m glad to see so many are here🦋

Field Mycology, a journal of the British Mycological Society, is now open access! Our paper on the first British record of Cortinarius oreoborealis is in the edition. fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo...

Find a flower with 4 free petals arranged in a cross shape & you’ve most probably found a member of the Brassicaceae! It’s a huge family & the challenge this week for #Wildflowerhour is to find a wild or naturalised member of the #CabbageFamily in flower. Share your finds this Sunday 8-9pm!

@siciliano1965.bsky.social garden to table

Morchella importuna in my garden.

#showmeyourknits #colorwork #mushroomdyes

These oysters were fruiting in my compost pile. Some one gave them to me from a local mushroom farm. They are a great addition to the compost pile and I wish I had more

I am happy to share that I will be teaching a field-based plant identification course near Portland, OR, this season. We will meet at different wildflower hotspots monthly throughout the spring-summer season. Join us! jesseedmiller.com/plant-identification-in-the-pacific-northwest

I’m finishing up a cashmere sweater. It’s my own design. I had to make up my own design because I have never learned to follow written patterns. I can figure out shapes just fine but I learned to knit backwards to every knitter. My mom taught me long ago

I got this absolutely gorgeous color from Phaeolus schweinitzii, the dyers polypore. Normally I use this mushroom for gold , yellow and green but I tried a new mordant, titanium oxalate and got this orange/red.

Very mature Laccaria spotted on my walk today.

📢We are preparing a manuscript to map fungal occurrence data across Europe and present challenges in digitizing data. We call on mycological groups and societies to complete this Google Form (5-10 min max): forms.gle/9G9NicJduzp2... #FunDive #fungalconservation #fungalresearch @ima-mycology.org

🌿 Do you want tho contribute to research on plant Aesthetics ? Take this quick, anonymous 5-minute survey : 👉 www.biodiful.org#/plantiful_en That will help us explore how people perceive plant beauty in urban spaces ! Please SHARE to reach more participants ! 🌼🌸🏵️ Thanks 💚

Mushroom Monday Lactarius fallax

Autumn mushroom dyeing. Left to right: Dyers polypore, Phaeolus schweinitzii, for the gold and yellow, violet hedgehog, Hydnellum fuscoindicum for the blue and Cortinarius smithii for the pink and Cortinarius cinnamomeus for the orange

If you see this post a fungi

I couldn’t see my post so I posted again. Then I found my first post. Oops!

Some of my fiber work

This is my first post on blue sky. I am migrating over from X. Most of the people I follow on X are mushroom hunters, knitters and artist. Here’s some photos of my fiber arts 🍄🧶.