The Forest Before Us

Photo of a fungus on a juniper branch. The fungus consists of a small reddish ball with several long, oval jelly-like growths.

Cedar Rust Fungus. NWT, Canada.
#fungus #fungi #fungifriends
Fungus in pic is about 2 to 3 cm high.

Geology specimen photo

Beautiful Blue Brite Flowers Crystals

📷 Godlegocrystal

#minerals #geology

The orange center of a flower on a sunny day. A few pink petals at the bottom of the frame.

#Bloomscrolling #ColourADay #OrangeSun Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) blooms late summer until the 1st frost.

Trees and clouds lit by the evening sun, reflected in calm water. River Loire near Orléans. February 2026.

River Loire near Orléans. February 2026.
#photography #landscape #river #trees #clouds #reflection #sunset #Loire #Orleans #France

Ross's Gull at Newlyn Harbour today with the harbour wall making a nice back drop to make the bird stand out.
This first winter gull showed well visiting the harbour a few times today.
@birdguides.bsky.social
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A valley with vibrant yellow foliage, green coniferous trees, and dry, brown trees, set against a clear blue sky and mountainous background.

Deep inside the La Garita Wilderness, north of Creede, Colorado, trees that were killed by beetles are slowly being replaced by new ones. #colorado #scenery #photography

A closeup view of the center of an echinacea flower, it is red on outside and light green in middle

A closeup of the center of an echinacea flower for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow #round #bloomscrolling #EastCoastKin #photography #macro

Moffitt Beach on Sacandaga Lake
Lake Pleasant, NY

The subtle glow of distant suns viewed through the illumination of a celestial storm - yes please! #Iceland | April, 2025.

A bit of slug appreciation!😃
I found this orange beauty on a mossy log a few nights back.

#macrophotography
#omsystem
#ukwildlife

A dark green-stemmed mushroom with a white-gilled, green-topped cap. There is light green feathery moss all around

A dark green-stemmed mushroom with a white-gilled, green-topped cap. There is light green feathery moss all around

I was taking a school group around their local heathland and one of the children spotted this striking mushroom. I think it’s Verdigris Navel, which seems to be seldomly spotted. Can anyone confirm and I’ll let the school know they’ve got a champ nature spotter! 🍄‍🟫

#FungiFriday #FungiFriends

Beautiful Vixen #art #BlueSkyArtShow #eastcoastkin #photography #nature

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#aragonite #phaunouxite #carbonates #phosphates #slovakiaminerals #dobsina #minerals #rocks #crystals #stones

She looked good today. #mountain #photography #bluesky #flyfishing #river #pnw

Ten small round mushrooms without color on a log. They have been popped open to puff out the spores.

Pear-shaped puffball (Apioperdon pyriforme).
#fungifriends #moss

Good morning #IowaCity. #iawx #skiesoveriowa #sunrise

#ForestFriday #Photography #Smokies

Small, borb of a songbird with grey and brown body, white and black face with yellow brow patches. White throat, natch. ©️DTL 2026

White-throated sparrow perched in a rhododendron 🪶

a painting titled Hollyhocks by Julia McEntee Dillon, dated approximately 1882.

🌱😌💚

February 2023, when the more northerly climes were dealing with lower temperatures, this photo was taken on the beach at La Paz on the desert peninsula of Baja California Sur. It’s a view taken between palm trees supporting green fronds above, yet their trunks–completely covered– by bristling, light-brown, serrated-edged, machete-pruned leaf stems. That prickly frame contrasts with the soft sand in the foreground and beach grass just beyond, the aqua-blue sea in the mid-ground, and the distant scrubland hills on the horizon - all beneath an azure sky. In the mid-ground, on the other side of the palm trees, white and robins’ egg blue-painted small fishing boats rest on the sand, casting shadows beneath, and to their left toward the still water at the shore. As a protected bay, the wave action in La Paz [during the months observed] was never much of a feature at the shoreline, beyond gentle lapping. The overall sense was of a slower, more peaceful pace.

La Paz, Baja California Sur for #BlueSky #Scape day - warmth and sunshine on a February day just over 3 years ago.
#beach #sunshine #sea #trees #photographersofbluesky #leisurelife #eastcoastkin #Mexico #Bajalife #nomad-adventures.
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Happy #FossilFriday

This is a beautiful Hexagonaria (colonial horn coral) from the Middle Devonian Cedar Valley Formation from Coralville, Iowa. There is a location in Iowa City, Iowa known as the Devonian Fossil Gorge where you can see an intact coral 390 million year old coral reef like this one.

Landscape photo of Big Cliff Reservoir in Marion County, Oregon. Large boulder in foreground. A black, backpack on a shelf on the boulder. Ridge in background with a stripe of snow, a large burn scar and fir trees

Big Cliff Reservoir, Marion County, Oregon, January, 2025

#scape #oregon #pnw #oregonscape #photography #myphotos

Here are some tiny mushrooms on a mossy tree.

#photography #nature #macrophotography #mushroom #pnw #resist

winter heather , moss and lichen

Bakethin Nature Reserve in February

#nature #naturephotography #winter #woodland #kielderforest #northumberland

An African Olive Pigeon on top of a bush. The bird is plum-coloured, with yellow bill, eye ring and feet

Good Day to All. Happy Fridays. For today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme of #Pigeons&Doves - This wonderfully plum-coloured African Olive Pigeon I found at Amakhala, South Afrcia. #birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #photography #nature #EastCoastKin

Land of Muhu

Photo of a Sanderling plucking breakfast from the surf.

Sanderling 🪶

🍄‍🟫 A bit brighter find to take us through to the weekend! 😎

Please let me know in the comments if you know what kind of Southern Oregon mushroom this is.

#mushrooms #fungifriends #fungiphotography #naturephotography

A photograph of a flower

“If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.”
― Slavoj Žižek
#photography #nature #forest #love #quote #philosophy