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Bright yellow and golden sunburst foliose lichen on grey branch

Seratonin lit
Burning like gasoline
Cerebral sunburst

#haiku #lichen #fungifriends #セロトニン

Lo que nunca pare de crecer en tu imaginacion …

Three small brown mushroom caps with cream colored ribs growing out of a background of green grass went a few multicolored leaves

Sometimes all it takes
To make your day brighter —
Small brown mushrooms

#haiku #fungifriends #nature

Patches of overlapping lichen on a single tree trunk, largest light grey, on top of a green dark emerald circle green and orange pink circle in the background.

Salty sweat burns while
Mosquito swarm buzz -
Lichen paradise

#haiku #fungifriends #lichen #naturephotography

Jade green heart shaped lichen on tree trunk with darker green edge.

Happiness felt
Receiving BlueSky Likes
Nothing like lichen find

#haiku #naturephotography #lichen #nature

Mayan carving of skull in profile in grey limestone with three distinct lichen patches of darker green centers and light grey green edges around the eye socket and back of cranium.

Enter Xibalba,
Place of Fear,
Future dark when
Terror reigns

#haiku #naturephotography #fungifriends #Archaeology

Stone carving from aged grey limestone of a serpent’s head with gaping mouth. Plants growing from the mouth and light blue grey lichens growing around the eyes

K’uk’ulkan asunder,
feathered form in rubble heap—
Yet Mayan spirit lives

#fungifriends #naturephotography #haiku #WaxaklahunUbahKan

Emerald green leaf covered with cream white and jade green circles of ephiphytic lichens or fungi

All life united —
Individuality,
A human construct

#fungifriends #haiku #naturephotography
#AlienClay @aptshadow.bsky.social

Strange but True: The Largest Organism on Earth Is a Fungus The blue whale is big, but nowhere near as huge as a sprawling fungus in eastern Oregon

Honey Fungus is largest and possibly oldest living organism #fungifriends

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Cytospora cankers of orange slime oozing out of white mangrove branch covers with light grey and yellow lichen patches. Many mangrove branches at all angles in background.

Silently wrought change -
Violent desolation and
Beauty in decay

#fungifriends #haiku #manglar #naturephotography #Annihilation @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social

Branching arms of light yellow brown coral fungi reach out of soil and evergreen leaf litter towards the heavens against the background of the tree.

Fungi,
Seven times mass of all animals—
Including us

#fungifriends
#naturephotography #haiku
#Thrust @lidiamiles.bsky.social

Light green lichen with multiple black raised dots on a dark brown rock with a sprig of moss as a jolly adornment

This little lichen
Made my day.
I’ll ask “what’s good?
Every day

#haiku #fungifriends #naturephotography

Bright green lungwort lichen with large lobed edges and a veined pattern. A small licorice fern frond peeks out at the edge.

Storm clears, happy find -
Lichens like lungs grant
A moment of peace

#haiku #fungifriends #naturephotography #意識呼吸

Diaphanous remains of a light sea foam green lichen mesh wrapped around a pebble.

In symbiosis,
Two thrive as one, raven pair—
Memory and Thought

#haiku #Naturephotography #Hrafnfreistuðr #fungifriends

Small pink or coral mushroom protrudes from a bright green clump of moss on a brown stick.

Oysterling pokes forth
Like a kitten’s probing tongue -
Little Pinky is gone

#haiku #naturephotography #fungifriends #ペットロス

A really beautiful book that stays with you.

Seafoam, celadon and jade green fluffy dust lichen in joined and separating circles on a rock base.

Celadon bitter sweet
Seafoam froth softens, sharpens
Milky jade matcha

#haiku #lichen #fungifriends #naturephotography #抹茶ラテ

Pixie cups lichen with water droplets held in the indentations, reflecting a grey cloudy sky

Cups over brimming,
Tuath Dé mind bending dew -
Escape reality

#haiku #fungifriends #naturephotography #lichen #PNW

Whitish tan split gill mushrooms sprouting from mahogany brown trunk.

Thirsty split gill ‘shrooms
Nature’s great pansexual
28K ways

#haiku #fungifriends #PNW #shroomseggs

Turkey tail fungi viewed from the top down with variegated brown and white patterns.

Raindrops in puddles
Hypnosis inducing scene -
Fixed in fungal form

#fungifriends #haiku #naturephotography #波紋

White, yellow and tan underside of polypore mushroom with brown edges and tongue like texture.

Forest’s afinage,
Cheese polypore, ripe and firm,
Umami incarnate

#fungifriends #PNW #haiku #旨味

Fortuitous? More like gratuitous 😉

Bright orange sunburst lichens

Massless particle waves
Sunburst photons moving at
The speed of light

#haiku #lichen #fungifriends #光

Simply amazing post for #fungifriends

Sharing from #fungifriends in Japan

Black and white backlit scene of beard lichen growing on bare branches against a grey white cloud sky

Caw of crows’ murder
Splat moist snowflakes
Lichen’s brittle dendrite
Monochrome

#PNW #fungifriends #haiku #モノクロ写真

Richly textured granite with microscopic golden yellow and light green white foliose lichens.

Miniature world
A marvel to discover-
No one gives a shit

#haiku #lichen #fungifriends #PNW

Sculptured top of grey Japanese style stone lantern conserved with moss and faerie cup lichen

Fae Realm beacon shines
Upon a world of peace and light—
Beyond mortal ken

#haiku #fungifriends #PNW #lichen #FaeRealm

Silver scenes whisper,
shadows dance with rain and war,
Master of the Art

#haiku #黒澤明

Grey dried foliose lichen on dead sequoia branch with copper red needles visible in background

Wake in deepest night
Anxious and overwrought
Black days my ordained fate

#fungifriends #lichen #PNW #BlackDays