Susannah 🍁

So many!
Reading a slide rule.
Threading ribbon into an old typewriter.
Threading film into a reel-to-reel projector.
Daily care and feeding of a battery of kerosene lamps and candles.
Running a mimeograph machine.

A streaky brown sparrow, standing on the 4x4 board curb along the edge of a wharf. There's a black cord knotted at the lower left, with some dock hardware. Background; dark blue water, blurry reflection of a grey boat.

Sparrow on a dock. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/more... #VancouverIsland #Birds #Birding #LBBs #NaturePhotography

A female mallard, angled away from the camera, resting. She's patterned in browns and beige, each feather outlined on her body and wings; the pattern on her head is finer, with less contrast. Her bill has an orange tip; the bottom and the edge next to her head are outlined in orange as well. Her legs, underwater, are orange. She's reflected in the water, slightly blurred as the water moves gently.

Mallard in shallow, grassy water, Campbell River estuary. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/gras... #VancouverIsland #Rivers #Estuary #Birds #Birding #NaturePhotography

View over still water. On the right, there's a point of land; evergreen trees, bare, brown shrubs, pale grasses at water's edge, mud banks. On the far side of the estuary, the shore is lined by trees, some green, many bare; beyond and above those can be seen the roofs of houses, then more evergreens. And above all that, clouds with a few blue patches of sky. The land forms and the clouds are reflected in the water in front. The predominant colours are blue and grey.

Campbell River estuary on a quiet winter afternoon.
New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/clou... #VancouverIsland #WaterReflections #Rivers #Estuary #Winter #NaturePhotography

Upside-down tree reflections. At the top of the photo, the rocks (the rip-rap) protecting the shore are seen, just their reflections; the photo starts at the waterline. Weeds and grasses grow over the rocks. Below the rip-rap, two small deciduous trees spread their bare branches, a bit rippled by the movement of the water. The water reflects the sky; pale, slightly bluish grey; it's a cloudy winter day.

Reflections in still water.
New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/peac... #VancouverIsland #Reflections #Trees #NaturePhotography

An underwater photo. On the left, there's a barnacle-covered piling. On the piling, there's a kelp crab, blurry in the semi-dark and the moving water. He is stretching out his long chelipeds, pinching jaws wide open, ready to grab anything that comes near. (Does he see me, above him, with the camera?) The crab is brown, with bits of orange. The water is green, with whitish reflections.

Watch out! This kelp crab is waiting for a chance to grab you! (On a piling under the wharf.) New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/shap... #VancouverIsland #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #Crabs #MarineInvertebrates #NaturePhotography

Relatable Corvid

There's always more. The photo shows a large gilled mushroom. The gills are white, deep, and marked with brown spots. The rim is all that's seen of the cap; it's a light brown. But there's more; just under the rim there's a fly with long, whitish wings. And below that, a small brown moth. Beside these, almost invisible against the background, there's a harvestman. And at the bottom of the photo there are two clumps of yellow coral fungus, Ramaria sp. The ground is covered with twigs and evergreen needles, with a few leaves of green moss.

Big, unnamed, splotchy-gilled mushroom, and more. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/look... #VancouverIsland #Fungi #Mushrooms #Invertebrates #Insects #NaturePhotography

A small, pure white mushroom, surrounded by bright green moss. It has a conical cap with the stalk off to the side. The mushroom is toothed; the tiny "teeth" are seen as projections from the lower edge of the cap. A globular springtail is on the cap; there's a fly underneath.

Cat's tongue fungus, Pseudohydnum gelatinosum. Also (now) known as "Spirit Gummy Bear" mushroom. With a springtail. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/ange... #VancouverIsland #Fungi #Mushrooms #NaturePhotography

A pale green lichen with round, tubular, irregularly branched lobes. Green with small black spots, black underneath.

A bone lichen, probably Hypogymnia physodes, Hooded bone. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/11/rags... #VancouverIsland #Lichens #LichenSubscribe #NaturePhotography

A streaky brown sparrow stands on the edge of his birdbath (a terracotta tray with a stone in the centre). Light shimmers on the water, still in motion after his bath. Background; a green chain-link fence with yellow and green leaves on the far sided. In front, between us and the birdbath, there are a few rose stems, bare now of leaves, but bristling with thorns.

Very clean sparrow after a long, refreshing bath. How they handle the cold is a mystery to me. I was wearing a fleece-lined jacket over a sweater. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/11/look... #VancouverIsland #Birds #Birding #NaturePhotography

Pale green lichen covers the bark of a tree. It has the texture of a dust bunny; bubbles and bumps and smears. This lichen is composed of tiny balls of algae wrapped in fungal hyphae (hair-thin threads). A few leafy structures at upper right are another lichen, Cladonia sp., as is the erect stalk at lower right, a fruiting body of that same Cladonia.

A dust lichen on a tree trunk. Lepraria inana. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/11/gree... #VancouverIsland #Lichens #NaturePhotography #LichenSubscribe

A bright green moss. Long, feathery leaves branching off central stems, arching somewhat like water in a fountain. The moss is growing on a dark branch. In the background, there's another branch, and a blurry fern frond.

Moss on a fallen evergreen branch. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/11/gree... #VancouverIsland #Forests #Moss #NaturePhotography

I finally managed to get him to eat✨️

Around the 50 second mark he’s especially cute, so please watch it.🐚🦀

Two parallel hills sloping down from right to left. They are densely forested with evergreen trees; mists float over the second one; over them, the sky is all grey cloud. On the right, a deciduous tree spreads its bare branches; they have a slight reddish tinge and small catkins hang from the branches; it's a red alder, and the catkins stay put over winter. November colour in the Pacific Northwest.

Mist and clouds over an evergreen-clad hill. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/11/ghos... #VancouverIsland #Forests #Skywatch #Weather #Landscapes #NaturePhotography

A group of conical mushrooms, various sizes from small to very small. The caps are tan, fading to white, then grey near the margins of the larger mushrooms. The stems are straight, smooth, white. They grow from the ground, surrounded by dead leaves of red alder and big-leaf maple; there are a few green leaves as well, trailing blackberry and another native weed.

Mica caps, Coprinellus micaceus. In low-lying, very wet land beside the Campbell River. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/11/lbms... #VancouverIsland #Wetlands #Fungi #Mushrooms #NaturePhotography

Saved all your pics for study.

Thank you! "Entwined". Good word to shape my thoughts on this world we live in.

"Lichens ... unique phenomena ... is not really true. Multiple organisms are involved, and this is true for all life."

I've been thinking of this all day. An eye-opener.

Thank you! Very helpful.

On a rotten log covered with a coat of blue-green algae (deep green), are two mushrooms; they are the fungal component of a lichen, never seen without this green alga. The mushroom has deep, widely spaced gills, cream coloured. The stem is pale brown, slightly wider at the base. We're seeing the mushrooms from beneath, so we don't see the top of the cap. On the left side, in a crack, is a small, brown stalk with a round ball on top, possibly the fruiting body of a slime mold. A brown mass at the right is a dead maple leaf, giving a sense of the time of year.

Lichenomphalia umbellifera, the two components, fungus and blue-green algae. With a possible slime mold fruiting body. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/11/more... #VancouverIsland #Wetlands #Lichens #Fungi #Mushrooms #NaturePhotography

A group of white, translucent mushrooms on a brown shrub stem, probably salmonberry. The mushrooms, most of which are seen bottom side up, have a round, umbrella-shaped (or parachute-shaped) cap, with widely-spaced gills, showing up as whiter lines on the white flesh of the cap. The stalks are thin, white, and about as long as the diameter of the caps. Background; a crumbly log, bright green, wet moss. Crossing the salmonberry stem, there's a piece of fern frond, dead, wet, brown.

Fairy Parachutes, Marasmiellus candidus, on a soaked salmonberry stem. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... #VancouverIsland #Wetlands #Fungi #Mushrooms #NaturePhotography

A shallow stream in the forest. An up-turned root of a tree makes a mini-island, covered with grasses, ferns, and native shrubs, some with leaves turned yellow. Along the right bank of the stream, more shrubs have brown, dead leaves; behind them there's a patch of grass, then a path leading to a wooden bridge, top left. The water reflects the bridge, the green evergreens overhead, the browns of the dead leaves; towards us, the light glints off the ripples in the water. On the far left, a few leaves hang over the water, green and rust-red.

In a drenched forest. Slow-moving water, dripping leaves. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/11/all-... #VancouverIsland #Wetlands #Forests #NaturePhotography

Hooded mergansers. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/11/flir... #VancouverIsland #Birds #Birding #NaturePhotography

Two small puffballs surrounded by fallen red alder leaves, green fading to black. The puffballs are ripe, no longer edible; the "balls" have opened the pore on top, where the spore dust will be puffed out with any contact. They are relatively fresh; one is starting to collapse, the other is still smooth and round. In the lower left corner, a few more puffballs are half hidden under the leaves.

Ripe puffballs, fallen alder leaves. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/11/too-... #Fall #Fungi #Mushrooms #EdibleMushrooms #AutumnLeaves #NaturePhotography

Fallen leaves, mostly brown, turning to black. With a small mushroom upright in the centre. The mushroom is tan coloured, with a narrow, straight stem; the cap is gilled, becoming concave, with the edges turned up to show the gills.The centre of the cap is raised. The leaves are big-leaf maple (warm brown) and cottonwood (variousl colours from spotted brown to burgundy to yellow or black).

Fallen leaves, and a mushroom. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/11/leaf... #VancouverIsland #Fall #Trees #AutumnLeaves #NaturePhotography

YouTube video by Pacificnorthwestkate Migrant Sandhill Cranes take a rest on their way through....

Friday 14 November 2025 I'm full of flu but I believe fresh air & nature walks are good for your body & soul! Look what I saw! Migratory Sandhill Cranes in among the ducks - eagles are setting up the Cackling geese in the next field! So many wonderful sights! Delta BC 🇨🇦 youtu.be/6fcBOpRiQQg?...

A November-ish photo. Half-bare trees, yellow and brown leaves, dried grasses. The view from one island to the next mini-islands. In front; smooth water, reflections of the bare tree branches. The water is blue where the light hits it, and black to greenish in the shade of the land. A channel cuts between the two islets; dark water with blurry reflections. There's one scraggly evergreen tree on the islet to the right, a tree with white bark on the one on the left. Sky overhead, a misty blue.

View from Baikie Island. Wetlands and November trees. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/11/inte... #VancouverIsland #Wetlands #Reflections #Landscapes #Skywatch #NaturePhotography

Four gilled mushrooms (one broken) curving away from the camera, showing the gilled underside of their caps. The caps, from what can be seen of the tops, are concave, bowl-shaped. The gills and stem are speckled, brown and cream; the stems have a pale ring partway down. They're growing out of an old log. Looking at the bark, it seems to be a cedar; it has long strands rather than scales. Most of the wood is covered with green moss, and at the bottom of the photo, there's a layer of fallen Big-Leaf maple leaves, mostly brown with a yellow patch, a bit of still-green leaf.

More Laughing Gyms. (I think). On a wet, mossy log, during a pause in the rains. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/11/more... #VancouverIsland #Fungi #NaturePhotography

On a sawed and well-aged log end, under the shadow of yellow and brown, fallen Big-Leaf maple leaves, sprouting out of a deep crack in the wood, a tiny mushroom stands alone. The cap is light brown, shading to tan; the stalk is slightly darker. The wood is mostly black, with blacker lines of fungal growth, some lighter brown areas.

Mushroom sheltering in a crack in a log end. Very tiny. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/11/so-t... #VancouverIsland #Fungi #Moss #NaturePhotography