Mushrooms are people too

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I like the woods better

The lovely fungus from genus ascomycota, little cups called peridium act like nests, holding the minuscule egg-like peridioles, which splash out of the nest like a fledgling on the wing, to land elsewhere and start anew…
We made the new Lego version of Philadelphia’s Love statue by Robert Indiana. It has 791 pieces which took long enough to forget about the ridiculous travesty that would have our founding fathers rolling over in their graves and focus on the brotherly love 💕 ☮️
Heart shape impression stepped into the snow, and black gsd excitedly makes his own digging hole, oblivious to the machinations of humanity. Ball, good. Walks, good. The pack together, the best. Reminding us to enjoy the simple joys… 💕
Porcupine teeth marks in a heart shape exposing the inside layer where they ate the bark of tree, looks like it was scraped with a rusty fork, orange inside against brown and lichen- green beech
Chocolate slime mold, stemonitis gives off plumes of dark spores when touched
Gnarly old tree trunk with heart shaped lichen spot in woods
Spiral of Trametes versicolor on log filling screen, the bands of browns and golds and tans shimmering with suedey softness, inviting you to forget the troubles of the day for one moment of peace
Scaly golden pholiota emerging from knothole in decaying log on forest floor
Young Gamoderma tsugae on mossy log
A little fairy scale model embraces tiny marasmius mushrooms in a mossy wood
Poking a bubble of pink slime mold and it seems to grab hold of the stick and assumably will devour it, reminding us that it is not to be trifled with
Bright yellow retiboletus ornatipes, or goldstalk mushroom, named for highly reticulated yellow stipe, in leafy forest floor
Polypore emerging from snowy log
A pot of chaga tea is being scooped with a light ceramic mug, there is a hint of the mushroom logo on the mug and you can tell how rich the brew is from the color dripping dark caramel into black as the coffee-like drink collects on the mug. Instead of a hand, an antler holds the mug over the pot on the wood stove
“Mama” silkie is hardly bigger than the two chicks foraging next to her
White slime mold creeping across the forest floor
Kitty looking out from nest
An array of fresh porcini mushrooms along the forest floor
Two mushrooms in the mossy wood. In the foreground a scleroderma and behind a beige bolete with three tiny teeth scrapes showing orange. A visitor was here.
Zinnia flower, petals gradated red to orange to yellow
Close up of physcia lichen covering a stick with abundant apothecia discs, full of life
Dripping wet wax cap next to powdery xylaria in mossy woods. They look like friends.
Center rosette of first year mullein plant displays the Fibonacci sequence in nature
Lots of tiny Mycena mushrooms on a stump in dappled light in the deep woods
Gazania flowers on orange. One has a bee visiting
Lupine
Log in ferny woods covered in turkey tail mushrooms