Greywolf

A very small mushroom grows out of dark and light brown cedar duff. Its stipe is yellow and shiny. Its cap is a beautiful emerald green and is also shiny enough to reflect the forest and cloudy sky above.

When parrot mushrooms are very young, their colors can sometimes be a bit more striking, particularly with the green in the cap

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/2.8, 1/25, ISO 400
Stack of 11 images
11/24/21
Olympia area, Washington

#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms

🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

Tucked between green grass and green moss is a short, translucent, white stalk curving over into a bell shaped blossom, with "arms" sticking out behind at the curve-point.

Ghost pipe rising
(Monotropa uniflora)

Not a #FungiFriday

A LARGE, light green caterpillar with a brown "face" in the sun dappled grass. Photographer's gray hiking shoe for scale. The caterpillar is long and very plump!

Polyphemus moth caterpillar
(Antheraea polyphemus)

#PureMichigan

I live in an area with lots of biting summer insects...the price of enjoying time outdoors 🙃

LARGE, light green caterpillar with a brown "face" in the sun dappled grass. Photographer's gray hiking shoe for scale.

Polyphemus moth caterpillar

(Antheraea polyphemus)

#PureMichigan
#caterpillar

It's Beautiful 😍

A small butterfly clinging to a blade of grass, wings closed. The butterfly is a light, golden orange color with black edges across the top of its wings and a white "eye" spot at the back near the bottom of its wing.

Pearl crescent (Phyciodes tharos)

#Butterfly
#PureMichigan

😃

Sunflower about to open

Its so pretty 🌻🌻

A fearful mouse of a man. US Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson.

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Relaxed toes on the front porch, near colorful flowers in a pot, overlooking a wildflower bed in bloom and a mowed lawn backed by green trees and shrubs. It's 77° F with low humidity and a breeze. You can't see the dog, but she's comfortable and on alert.

Jobs done. Beer in hand. Dog surveying the yard from a comfy spot.
#GoodLife

You’re not off-route, you’re just main charactering ✨

A small orange mushroom has been plucked and turned on its side for identification. The oak root it was growing against is in the background. The ground underneath is covered in moss and oak leaves.

#MushroomMonday

What a fantastic photo!

A stormy cloud formation above/behind a row of green-leafed trees. Within the cloud formation are stacked rows of sun gilded horns. What?!

#Clouds

👀 😈😈 or 😼😼??

Black, gray and white Catahoula Leopard dog laying on a blue/gray/green striped cushion on an outdoor bench on the front porch.

Whose bench? Her bench.

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, or Transformers.

A Cattle Egret strides purposefully across muddy grass, feathers fluffed and windswept into a dramatic crest. With narrowed eyes and hunched shoulders, it looks like it’s facing Monday with strong opinions and zero preparation.

Me walking into Monday with no plan and an attitude.

#MondayMotivation

📷 Peter Christian

A large orange flower blossom with a circular yellow center shows off its stamen. It has 3 large petals with 3 slightly smaller petals interspersed below the larger ones. The petals are long and gracefully curved. There is one spent blossom and one yet-to-open blossom showing just behind.

It's day lily season 😊

#flower
#PureMichigan

Super cute toad on the ground

Toads!!

That last shot is just glorious!

A Monk thistle - a tall green flowering plant, shaped rather like a dandelion, with sharp spiny pickers on every leaf tip and all over its trunk. This one is over five feet tall. The stalk diameter is at least two inches at the base.

Thistle. My height and still growing 👀

#ThickTrunkTuesday

The immature thistle flower looks like the dangerous, spore shooting flower from Star Trek The Original Series.

Mature (purple) and immature (green/white/deep purple) thistle flowers stop a tall, stalky, rough and prickery green plant.

Musk thistle
(Carduus nutans) is a member of the Daisy family. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Who knew?

Cool as they are, they are an invasive species in Michigan.

#WildFlowers

A largish turtle with a yellow chin and throat. It has a patterned shell with yellow speckles.

Dodged 3 different turtles on my home from work yesterday, saw a painted turtle laying eggs in the yard last night and met this guy on my morning walk today 😃

Blanding's turtle
(Emydoidea blandingii)

#Turtle Season
#PureMichigan

Quote a record that you found in your parents’ collection when you were young

This is the Sculptor Galaxy as you've never seen it before.

Taken with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, this false colour view shows the central part of the galaxy, aka NGC 253, which is 11 million lightyears away.

A purple flower atop a tall, slender, green stalk. There is a long, slender, second flower bud directly below the open bloom.

Blue flag iris fading in the heat
(Iris versicolor)

The state wildflower of Michigan

#Flowers
#PureMichigan

A domed cluster of small, white flowers nestled between smooth, elongated, green leaves.

Gray dogwood
(Cornus racemosa)

TIL the cluster of flowers is called a panicle 😊

#Wildflowers
#PureMichigan