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A snapshot of one shelf in my den of curiosities, featuring a collection of amber glassware, clear glassware, a set of shark jaws, a leather-covered bottle, a lamp made of a white crystal, a candle holder, and a set of clam shells.

#WunderkammerWednesday #CabinetOfCuriosities

I waited till 11pm this week and the neighbour across the street was outside giving his dogs a potty break. Oh, the internal swearing!

Some mushroom finds during September.

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I finally decided to watch the 1959 The Twilight Zone series for the first time. I watched "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" episode last night so I know exactly what you're talking about.

Have a gargoyle. Not enough non-cartoony gargoyles on Bluesky.

Wouldn't that be eight thousand (half are great-grandmothers)?

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Two views of a fairy ring encountered in 2024. I keep checking but so far it hasn't reappeared.

A top-down view of a white puffball mushroom with tan-coloured feathering, sitting in a dried out area of a lawn.

A side view of a white puffball mushroom with tan-coloured feathering, sitting in a dried out area of a lawn.

View of a pair of puffball fungi erupting from a felled birch tree.

View of a pair of puffball fungi erupting from a felled birch tree.

#FungiFriday #FungiFriends

It's been really dry here lately so not much fungal growth to be found.

A bright orange slice. #fungifriends

In this model, mantle plumes (yellow) rise from big lower-mantle basal structures (nicknamed BLOBs, in red). Mantle plumes influence volcanic activity at the surface, and the current position of the continents is visible in gray. Credit: Annalise Cucchiaro

Deep beneath your feet, two enormous blobs (technically known as BLOBs) sit at the top of Earth's core. They may be remnants of a protoplanet that collided with ours 4.5 billion years ago.

New evidence suggests they're still linked to volcanic eruptions today. 🧪🔭

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A tree stump encrusted with bracket fungi.

Another view of a tree stump encrusted with bracket fungi.

Final view of a tree stump encrusted with bracket fungi.

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A few views of a tree stump well encrusted with bracket fungi. Sorry about the terrible pics.

I watch Natasha's videos too. Her style/taste is definitely not mine (prefer grunge/neutral/steampunk) but she has loads of great ideas. Check out BohemianCrafting if you haven't already, for more inventive ephemera and processes.

Love those postcards.

Close-up of a glass cloche on a cork base filled with marine items - lobster claw, various shells and seaweeds, a sand dollar, a sea urchin shell, a stone with barnacles, and a mermaid's purse. Refracted sunlight on the glass globe is causing a banding effect on the glass.

Close-up of a glass cloche on a cork base filled with marine items - lobster claw, various shells and seaweeds, a sand dollar, a sea urchin shell, and a crab carapace.

Close-up of a glass cloche on a cork base filled with marine items - lobster claw, various shells and seaweeds, a sand dollar, a sea urchin shell, a stone with barnacles, and a mermaid's purse.

Close-up of a glass cloche on a cork base filled with marine items - lobster claw, various shells and seaweeds, a sand dollar, a sea urchin shell, a stone with barnacles, and a mermaid's purse.

#WunderkammerWednesday

A #CabinetOfCuriosities doesn't need to fill a room to be interesting. Seen here is a cloche filled with marine items - lobster claw, various shells and seaweeds, a sand dollar, a sea urchin shell, a stone with barnacles, and a mermaid's purse.

Nice work.

I've just today started watching the old Lucifer show and the pilot episode featured a rapper suspect named "2 Vile". Right out of the gate with that one.

A pair of hands reaching for a giant puff-ball mushroom nestled among some greenery behind a large stone.

From October 2024.
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Top-down view of a shelf fungus attached to a fallen branch on the forest floor.

Bottom view of a shelf fungus attached to a fallen branch on the forest floor, showing off the gills.

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A mounted specimen of the Goliath birdeater tarantula. The frame is green and the text indicates the specimen originated from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Today's #WunderkammerWednesday delves into the macabre practice of animal taxidermy, with this mounted specimen of the Goliath birdeater tarantula, late of the Dominican Republic. This is a smaller specimen with the body at 6cm long, and legs diagonally 15cm tip to tip.
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A photo showing a small glass jar with a ground-glass stopper shaped like a dog's head. The jar is half-full of white corkscrew-like fibres.

A bit of whimsy from the old #CabinetofCuriosities for this week's #WunderkammerWednesday -- look away those of you with delicate constitutions!

Here is presented a vial reportedly containing dried merman sperm, method of collection unknown but no doubt a mind-boggling feat.

Well this is just frikkin adorable.

That's him.

Dunno why but this feels Roger Dean-ish.

lol That's never been the case for me but these looked so much like chocolate chip cookies fresh out of the oven, when they're still a little bit puffy. Two of them even have the darker edge that the best cookies have.

I think I want cookies.

Some yellow shelf fungi nestled inside the bole of a tree.

Some yellow shelf fungi nestled inside the bole of a tree. They look like chocolate chip cookies without the chocolate chips.

I don't know what it is but it looks tasty.

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Found another account sharing postcards from the past. 👻

Very neat. Parallel port...you don't see that very often anymore.

No, I found this one in a dusty second-hand shop. I did do the one in my profile pic though.

Photo of a beautiful example of pysanky done on an ostrich egg and mounted in a plain wooden frame. The intricate design's colour palette consists of red, orange and yellow, with white guidelines.

This week's #WunderkammerWednesday is a lovely example of pysanky done on an ostrich egg, and mounted in a plain wooden box frame for protection. A grand addition to any #CabinetofCuriosities.

A wide shot of forest litter with a tiny bunch of white Ghost Pipe plants in the center.

A close-up image of a cluster of white Ghost Pipe plants nestled amongst rocks, leaves and moss.

Not a fungus this time but fungi-adjacent. Ghost Pipe is a parasitic plant that survives by sapping nutrition through the fungal web of mycorrhizae around tree roots. So... #FungiEnemies? Ghost Pipe is white because it doesn't use photosynthesis to grow.

#FungiFriends #FungiFriday