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If you’re taking your kids trick-or-treating tonight, remember that a beer cooler hauled along in a wagon makes the night magical

Slightly modified version:

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Love how everyone on the field stops to watch the replay

A closeup shot of a worker bee on a sunflower sporting bulging pollen baskets.

Zoomed out view of the sunflower, showing the entire circle of disc florets, the petals (ray flowers) and the lone worker bee.

I’m getting out worked in my own yard.

This little bee was dedicated. It spent about 10 minutes on that sunflower.

Jackpot, for both of us. 🌱

digital painting by gnaw of a morel mushroom. ink

day 149 of drawing a fungus until i have an art style

morel

A side view of a wild turkey in full strut, standing in the middle of a road.

My new neighbor is loud and doesn’t respect property boundaries. 🙃🌿

A colony of the slime mold Trichia varia being infested with the fungi Polycephalomyces tomentosus. The round, brown sporangia of the Trichia is overrun with a white, fuzzy appearance & tiny white fruiting bodies.

A slime infestation is my kind of idea of a good time. 🌿

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A shot showing growths of slime mold surrounded by moss. I believe this is stemonitopsis typhina with those silvery stalks.

A side angle of the same growths of slime mold surrounded by moss. I believe this is stemonitopsis typhina with those silvery stalks.

The forest was quite rewarding today after some time away.

Lots of good stuff out there, but there was one clear standout. 🌿

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Thank you. I really appreciate that.

I have been hiking and exploring for a long time but just last year started to photograph things more seriously.

A banana slug eating a yellow fieldcap mushroom from underneath. It has consumed about half of it

Different angle of a banana slug eating a yellow fieldcap mushroom. This shot is from behind at ground level

Crashed another private luncheon 🌿

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Applies to both 🙃

Artwork of a spiky dragon from “How to Train Your Dragon”

They have, a bit. It’s a great show.

Their current obsession lies here:

A bright green cluster of leafy lichen growing out of a wet, burgundy colored branch. I believe it’s wolf lichen but not 100% sure.

My kids love imagining these shrubby lichen are little baby trolls hiding in the branches. 🌿

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Powderhorn cup lichen growing out of a mossy log.

Check these out

A large cluster of sunburst lichen is exploding out of a branch, with a few more small clusters developing in the perimeter.

This cluster of golden orange sunburst lichen reminds me of a full band in full swing, with the horns popping out overhead.

Extremely jealous of these elaborate sunburst lichen celebrations. 🌿

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A front view of a western forest scorpion that’s staring back at the camera, unamused.

Side view of a western forest scorpion that’s glowing neon-teal, if that’s a thing, in UV light.

This just looks like part of a mossy log and some wood underneath, but one zooms in there is a tiny scorpion just left of center.

Same shot of the mossy log as before but this time the tiny scorpion is lit up in UV.

Western forest scorpions.

These were snoozing under some loose bark that was clinging to an ancient fallen tree.

The larger one was about 2”. The smaller one would fit in my thumbnail. 🌿

I think so but I’m not 100%. I need to head back tomorrow to capture some better shots.

From this morning.

Spot on. We landed in a similar focus bubble.

I really appreciate what you’re producing and will definitely stay tuned. My 6yo was blown away when I showed him your artwork just now. Really cool project and massive respect for making it happen.

Love it. Thanks for sharing that with me.

My kids have started to really enjoy exploring and finding fungi this year. To keep them engaged we come up with names and back stories for every growth.

They were quite excited when I showed them that a book is on the way.

A stump that’s growing tiny clusters of stemonitis and two notable different stages of palomino cup fungi, one just developing and one that is past mature and beginning to rot.

View from a few feet back. What a magical stump.

A cluster of stemonitis, aka chocolate tube slime. It looks like a tiny militia of cattails growing on strands of hair.

These are just begging to be characterized and animated.

Stemonitis - chocolate tube slime mold. 🌿

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Thank you!

A pair of snowy waxcap mushrooms are illuminated by the sun behind them.

The absence of good news can be tempered with a good walk. 🌿

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A light amber colored burgundydrop bonnet from below. This grew unusually with two stipes seemingly fusing together to a single cap.

Always worth looking below. 🌿

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An intimidating growth of phlebia, looking quite close to an open shark’s mouth. I half expected it to start chewing.

A beautiful growth of golden coral fungi, about the size of a head of cabbage.

Bright orange egg shell slime mold beads, looking like salmon roe glistening on a stick.

A cloud in the shape of a shark’s dorsal fin.

Couldn’t help but notice an aquatic theme to what I was finding today.

Then I looked up. 🌿

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A pair of shiny parrot waxcaps from above. One cap is mostly bright green but the left third is brown. A little two-tone action. The other is completely brown.

A trio of small scurfy twiglet mushrooms are encased in a spiderweb, which has captured a ton of spores making it look like an orange veil that’s protecting their gills.

A large mass of wavy leafy brain fungus is protruding out the side of a fallen tree. This particular specimen is a reddish-brown color and is about the size of a head of cabbage.

An adult western skink is resting next to some filaments of mycelium.

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter S.

Here’s a few things I found today that are worth peeking at. 🌿

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That’s really interesting and cool you went for it and tried some.

They went all-in on appearance and had nothing left for flavor.