Kurt McCloud

Tomorrow January 30th!

Guess who was her first?


#rescuecats #tabbycat

I need a bigger house!


#fatcat #rescuecat #tabbycat

Should be snow this time of year but it’s just snow geese

Chillin with my boy

The light was just right




#mushrooms #fungi #pnw

Late Oysters (Sarcomyxa serotina)
found on Guemes Island, Washington



#mushrooms #fungi #pnw

Not a care in the world



#dogs #freeloader #englishshepherd #farmcollie

I think, based on iNaturalist, that these are Blewit (Collybia nuda), but the color is throwing me. Found in Cle Elum, Washington.


#mushrooms #fungi #cleelum #pnw

Can’t believe there were that many right on the side of a busy trail that had not been harvested. I grabbed about a third of them. They were excellent.

Oysters (Pleurotus ostreatus)
Cle Elum on a log

#mushrooms #fungi #CleElum #Suncadia

I believe this to be Club-Like Tuning Fork (Calocera cornea)
Anacortes on an old log by the Guemes Channel

#fungi #mushrooms #mycology #Anacortes

Bird’s Nest Fungi (Crucibulum laeve)
Guemes Island in mulch


#birdsnestfungi #fungi #mushrooms

Fall is fabulous


#pnw #salishsea #olympicmountains

So cute and so small!

Western Amethyst Laccaria
(Laccaria amethysteo-occidentalis)
Found near Whistle Lake in Anacortes


#fungi #mushrooms #mycology #hiking #pnw #hikingdogs

A good day in the woods


#mushrooms #fungi #hiking #pnw

It grows as a wrinkled, orange to pinkish waxy crust on the decaying wood of coniferous and deciduous trees, in which it causes a white rot. The fungus was first described scientifically in 1821 by Elias Magnus Fries. (Source: Wikipedia, i radiata, CC BY-SA 3.0)

#fungi #mycology #wrinkledcrust

Wrinkled Crust (Phlebia radiata)
Found Anacortes, Washington at Mount Eire

Phlebia radiata, commonly known as the wrinkled crust, is a common species of crust fungus in the family Meruliaceae. It is widespread in the Northern Hemisphere.

A whole lot more people showed up for the No Kings Day protests in smaller towns and cities than the media is telling you. When they say “hundreds” they should be saying “thousands”.


#nokingsday #nokings #anacortes #anacorteswa #democracy

Most of us in Seattle wish we were Canadian right now anyway.

Coral Tooth

Found in Anacortes, Washington several days ago. One my favorite edible mushrooms.


#fungi #mushrooms #coraltooth #mycology

Just in time for Halloween!




#boletemold #fungi #mushrooms #bolete #mycology

Golden Pholiota
Anacortes, Washington

Man I love fall.


#fungi #mushrooms #mycology.

Thinking these are Western Jumbo Gyms.

#fungi #mushrooms #mycology

#newt #salamanders #amphibians #guemesisland #salishsea #anacortes

Look at this cute little toxic dude! This is a Rough-skinned newt I helped cross the street on Guemes.

Taricha granulosa
The rough-skinned newt or roughskin newt (Taricha granulosa) is a North American newt known for the strong toxin exuded from its skin. (Source: Wikipedia)