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A naturalist and lichen lover living in Nagano, Japan. I post in Japanese in the morning, and in English in the afternoon & evening. 信州の地衣類と虫の人。午前は日本語、午後は英語で投稿。

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01.03.2026 23:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Cat up close. Green eyes with small pupils. White mask with brown & lack. Patch on right side of nose.

Cat up close. Green eyes with small pupils. White mask with brown & lack. Patch on right side of nose.

まなざし...
Mimaki's gaze, looking right through your soul

01.03.2026 22:41 — 👍 59    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
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#nowar

28.02.2026 23:34 — 👍 206    🔁 64    💬 0    📌 0
Ladders Cross the Blue Sky in a Wheel of Fire

Ladders Cross the Blue Sky in a Wheel of Fire

Ladders Cross the Blue Sky in a Wheel of Fire https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/ladders-cross-the-blue-sky-in-a-wheel-of-fire

25.02.2026 10:16 — 👍 26    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Gorgeous Pattern To Knit A Cowl Inspired By Lord Of The Rings: 👉 tidd.ly/3RISlXr - designed by Melanie Rountree of Rountree Stitchery #knitting #etsy #affiliate #handmade 🧝

01.03.2026 21:30 — 👍 18    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Abundance

01.03.2026 19:10 — 👍 21    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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イビキかいてる🐱

01.03.2026 11:21 — 👍 25    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
This is a big pice of paper, maybe 60x 35 cm if i rember correctly. Ish.. it has a watercolour painted on it. A path way into some woods, with a sphere like perspective

This is a big pice of paper, maybe 60x 35 cm if i rember correctly. Ish.. it has a watercolour painted on it. A path way into some woods, with a sphere like perspective

#watercolour #landscape #painting #art #watercolorOnPaper

17.02.2026 01:01 — 👍 87    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 0
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With my unexpected trip to Italy and then Christmas I have been a little absent here lately. Anyway, here's some of my favorite pieces I painted this year. Happy 2026 x

29.12.2025 17:07 — 👍 40    🔁 7    💬 4    📌 0
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This is the only proper documentary evidence I have of the actual colour of the mural

01.03.2026 16:12 — 👍 154    🔁 22    💬 2    📌 1
Botanical study page of pencil sketches and colored pencil study. Bearded iris blossom in several views.

Botanical study page of pencil sketches and colored pencil study. Bearded iris blossom in several views.

Bearded iris seed pod, after blossom, still on plant with papery cover. Graphite study.

Bearded iris seed pod, after blossom, still on plant with papery cover. Graphite study.

Bearded iris seed pod as it dries out. Graphite study.

Bearded iris seed pod as it dries out. Graphite study.

Thinking ahead to warmer weather. This is a rough study of a beautiful, purple-bearded iris blossom from our yard last summer and one of its seed pods as it matures (from June through Aug.) 🎨🐡🌱 #beardediris #botanicalart #botanicalstudy

01.03.2026 17:47 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Absent Fog
Ink/Acrylic
48”x24”
Canvas

01.03.2026 20:16 — 👍 87    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 1

oegstgeest-foraged seabuckthorn curd, whipped cream flavored with noyeaux made from apricot kernels bought from a guy on the street in osh last year, moderately suspicious pie crust from the freezer

01.03.2026 19:26 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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ミモザの木にもたれて、ミモザの天井を楽しむ。

01.03.2026 14:03 — 👍 153    🔁 25    💬 0    📌 0
About 25 little orange and brown bugs on a red and green Eucalypt leaf.  Each nymph has made its own white fan or shell shaped shelters.  They suck nutrients under the leaf.  The birds love to eat the lerps and the bugs underneath and you can hear quite a satisfying crack sound as they forage.

About 25 little orange and brown bugs on a red and green Eucalypt leaf. Each nymph has made its own white fan or shell shaped shelters. They suck nutrients under the leaf. The birds love to eat the lerps and the bugs underneath and you can hear quite a satisfying crack sound as they forage.

Psyllids are quite underrated #insects. They are tiny leaf dwellers and some make elaborate sugary shelters (lerps). These are Cardiaspina sp. nymphs with their intricate fan-shaped covers. #Tasmania

01.03.2026 21:23 — 👍 23    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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Butterflies and moths
Butterfly Monitoring Camp Bukovcevo
Long - Term Spring moth counts
16th anniversary of the first moth flights count
A moth Orange Underwing (Archiearis parthenias) first flight ...
www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB/viewto...

01.03.2026 16:02 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
A lichen on the branch of a tree. Dead bracken covers the ground.

A lichen on the branch of a tree. Dead bracken covers the ground.

A shield #lichen on a birch tree, just before sunset yesterday.

#FungiFriends #nature #photography

01.03.2026 09:15 — 👍 26    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Lichen and ume (plum flowers), Kyoto

01.03.2026 10:26 — 👍 25    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
Tiny rosette of brown cylindrical branches, less than 1cm across, on limestone

Tiny rosette of brown cylindrical branches, less than 1cm across, on limestone

Post image Underside of small limestone block showing several thalli of Scytinium massiliense, as well as some dark Verrucaria nigrescens

Underside of small limestone block showing several thalli of Scytinium massiliense, as well as some dark Verrucaria nigrescens

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Minute jelly #lichen less than 1cm across whose preferred habitat is underside of small limestone blocks in scree. Scytinium massiliense, from upland Cumbria, with tiny cylindrical nodulose branches. Distribution sparse in UK but is it overlooked? #lichengbi

01.03.2026 14:09 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Cladonia digitata (photos 1, 2, 3) contrasted with its more common relative, C. coniocraea (photo 4). Both on birch bark in Zielonka Forest, Wielkopolska (western Poland).
#lichens #porosty #fungi #grzyby #lichenology #mycology #lichenfriends #fungifriends

01.03.2026 15:46 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Photo of initial layers of an Inktense painting of bright yellow/green lichen shaped like little cups.

Photo of initial layers of an Inktense painting of bright yellow/green lichen shaped like little cups.

Sketching while visiting my MIL. Inktense pencils. I wish I had more colors - teal + bright yellow are a difficult path to a gray green. But still many layers to go.
#art #lichen

01.03.2026 15:58 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
A little brown mushroom, moist from rain, catches a shine on its cap

A little brown mushroom, moist from rain, catches a shine on its cap

Don’t forget to shine!
🍄✨

01.03.2026 19:36 — 👍 53    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0
Photo of a light grey lichen comprised of numerous octopus-looking branches covered in dark grey discs (the apothecia).

Photo of a light grey lichen comprised of numerous octopus-looking branches covered in dark grey discs (the apothecia).

A Physcia sp lichen on a poplar tree.
NWT, Canada. photo covers about 6cm, left to right. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

01.03.2026 03:40 — 👍 687    🔁 63    💬 10    📌 4
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#地衣類 #lichen #fungifriends

28.02.2026 23:14 — 👍 118    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
Morning scenery. Grey sky. Hazy. Landscape in landscape with house & street lights. Brown fields visible in foreground.

Morning scenery. Grey sky. Hazy. Landscape in landscape with house & street lights. Brown fields visible in foreground.

おはようございます。
26年3月2日(月)、-4.6℃。今日はまったりできるのだ。気温はマイナスだけど心はプラス。

01.03.2026 21:15 — 👍 22    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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A little look at something I’m currently working on

#Drawing #Art #Feathers

28.02.2026 16:41 — 👍 90    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 0
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—a warmer day, decided to sit outside with the dog and #sketch. I’m very out of practice with #ink and #watercolor. I hope eventually I can bring what I’m learning in my drawing class into my sketchbook!

#sabbatical #urbansketching

28.02.2026 21:23 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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A Field of Yellow Flowers - 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14526

27.02.2026 16:58 — 👍 50    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0
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The last 6 bugs I needed to get done for #febugary2026 I kinda did my own thing with these last few. I did manage to finish out and start a new sketchbook doing these challenges, so I'll keep on keeping on

#art #sketchbook #illustration #sciart #bugart #bugsky #insectart #wildlife

28.02.2026 19:39 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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ウスタビガの羽化アクリルキーホルダーも可愛くできました。
#インセクトフェスティバル #東京むし作品展

28.02.2026 09:22 — 👍 24    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1