The melt begins tomorrow.
About time I dust myself off and stop hibernating
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The melt begins tomorrow.
About time I dust myself off and stop hibernating
Cladonia portentosa, I think. Tangled branches of light green lichen.
#DailyLichen
& #DailyReminder that
:
Mutually beneficial relationships
create worlds.
Divides
only hold us back.
:
#LICHEN
A colony of algae or cyanobacteria living in a mutually beneficial relationship with multiple fungus species & along other bacteria.
#fungifriends #OurFuture #strongertogether
Eastern larch beetle is impacting over 1 million acres in Minnesota - 4 new species of Ophiostomatales just described that are associated with this beetle! #fungi #barkbeetle #Ophiostoma #mycology www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... photo by US Forest Service
I'm just glad I'm not alone on this this time. The water levels on AOE3 make my computer freeze every time. Solidarity!
Also I totally recommend bog myrtle tea. I usually don't have much dream recall, so it's refreshing to be able to use my resting hours for something akin to watching movies overnight. Much more interesting than just being sleepy, then opening your eyes when you're done.
They surrounded me while I was in some sort of sniffing trance, totally immobilized by bliss.
I had a weird dream last night.
I was some sort of villain on the run for some reason, and my longstanding public displays of affection for the scent of cinnabar polypores was taken advantage of by a team of scientists who specifically created a liquified bottle of its aroma to lure me into a trap.
I appreciate all updates on anything related to sniffing cinnabar polypores
Mostly it just smells good.
The type of memories it brings back is something like art class. Like maybe some sort of toll paints or scented playdoh, or a certain scratch and sniff sticker or something. Something along those lines but I really can't put my finger on it
I don't even know what to call it. It's probably one of those "memory" smells where it reminds me of something from my childhood.
I can't think of anything else that smells like it though
These are called Cinnabar Polypores.
They like cherry trees and poplars.
If you find one, please sniff one and tell me how to feel about it.
Whatever aromatic compounds are in there I'm the world's biggest fan of it
Yeah I find even people who like it like it in small doses (me). Even being open to eating liver I wouldn't be eating it every week
These guys smell fantastic btw.
vertically oriented color photo of a red Ozeri brand digital scale, reading 1.772lb. On it is an enormous CA Golden Chanterelle mushroom, Cantharellus californicus, sitting on its cap, with its meaty stipe covered in dirt reaching upwards to the top of the photo. You can see all the beautiful details of the false gills making lovely wavy lines on the underside of the cap. In the background are more dirty golden chanterelles sitting on a wooden table used as an artists palette with random blobs of colored paint on it. This was the most giant and spectacular Queen of all the thousands of CA Golden Chanterelles I've found in over 25 years of foraging.
just bragging about this 1-3/4 lb CA golden chanterelle; biggest one I've found in over 25 years of foraging, tho quite a few have come close, and I regularly find 1 lb ones.
anyone have any recipe ideas? I'm pretty sure I've tried mushroom *everything* but maybe you'll surprise me?
#FungiFriends
I relate to the King Gizz sentiment.
Both are very much love it or hate it sort of bands. I initially expected to not like Angine because I hate the masked/costumed band trend, but they basically have me wrapped around their finger at this point.
The elfin saddles were out in force after last week’s rains!
#fungi #fungifriends #mushrooms #nature #macro
The urge to drift around the rink parking lot increases with each passing snowflake.
Happy #mushroommonday afternoon Bluesky 🦋 #fungifriends.
A good day at Felbrigg Great Wood with Norfolk Fungus Study Group. Best for me was this Pyrenula macrospora, another western species not at all expected in Norfolk.
Good news and bad news.
I can feel myself snapping out of my winter funk :)
I can see the forecast into March now and the snow is not ready to snap out of it :(
Dicranum flagellare is so photogenic
Really big by Canadian spider standards. It was only golf ball sized. I'm sure my tropical brethren would find this to be quite average.
Just saw a really big spider on my wall and lost it by the time I grabbed my camera.
This would be tragic for completely different reasons for many people.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/dismantling-...
It has to be us keeping an eye out.
Politicians with rich friends will always see the environment as something to exploit rather than protect.
We've been too passive and polite about this in the past.
Going to avoid naming the location and group because that's not the point. Most of the province just takes this data for granted. It's just the location in the hot seat for today.
They say you don't know what you got til it's gone, but when it comes to wildlife you don't know what you got until someone actually asks the question and goes to look for themselves
Ricky reminding us that he told us so
Just read the newspaper and theory just became reality.
A local marsh is filling in with sea water due to climate change. The stewardship group looking out for it can't explain what was lost because no one was actually recording the plants and birds that lived there.
Don't wait until it's too late.
Thinking about that really tall mushroom I photographed from beneath that one time.
(This probably makes it seem like I'm harder on vehicles than I really am. They're usually quite thoroughly used before I can afford them)
My annual hoopty has been acquired.
It's suspiciously less squeaky than usual. Still haven't figured out why I got it so cheap.