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Some moss of some sort that resembles a cluster of starburst shaped flowers in shades of yellow and green

Some grey lichen that looks like fine pebbles is growing on a pinkish rock next to grey-green and brown lichens that looks like fine like blobby flowers

A more detailed shot of the grey pebble-like lichen reveals that the larger “pebbles” have little holes. There is a pretty golden lichen growing too with a similar texture

Some green moss growing on a pinkish and grey rock along with more of the grey pebble lichen

macro shots of some lichen/moss colonies that grow on the rocky banks of the crooked river

going to a late night IMAX showing of Princess Mononoke tonight and it couldn’t happen at a better time

The thing about AI and this mindset that it allows those who “can’t draw” to draw is that is a lie. I taught college level courses on drawing and met multiple students who grew leaps and bounds in their drawing skill sets because they wanted to and took the time to try

Everyone can learn to draw

reading again and listening to audiobooks has been such a joy. i’m trying to stick with nonfiction for audiobooks and fiction for my physical books, and it’s been a nice divide of my attention

audiobook cover of Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard. there is an old tree trunk covered in light green lichen and moss with a small conifer growing in front of it

big time enjoying the audiobook read by the author - i had no idea it was going to be so fungal, but it’s so perfect after the last 4 books i listened to

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each read builds up questions that the next one seems to answer or deliberate on or lead to new but connected questions! im having a great time!

the book cover for The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, featuring a light grey bg and a brownish watercolor painting of a matsutake mushroom

book cover for Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Melvin Sheldrake - a rainbow of fungi and lichen surround a black bg with mycelium strands connecting them

bookcover of How to Change Your Mind - What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan. the bg is black with an open window looking up at a blue sky with a single white cloud

the book cover for In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms by Doug Bierend. the bg is black with a grayscale bunch of mushrooms in the center and strands of mycelium branching out and in from the corners

okay here are all the fungi books i’ve currently read, in order. i actually kind of recommend this order, too, if you’re new to fungi books or fungi at all like i am. i also *just* started Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard last night - which i didn’t know was gonna be so mycological!

digital painting of a woman walking through a city street of unlikely proportions

First Night in the City

here’s my formal apology to any mushroom i called gross when i was but an uneducated fool

biggest longest sigh

and just started my 4th. my hunger for the fungi remains

i have listened to 3 mushroom books in a month in a half 🫠🫡

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ursula k le guin is the queen of unsuspecting, immediate sucker punches

3 coffee day

Shy people, you can leave a voicemail for Gov. Hochul at this number right now!

A vibrant colony of oak mazegill polypores grow at the base of a dead oak tree alongside moss and vines in a snowy forest All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

im entering my fungi friend era

fungus books im reading dropping tasty Ursula K Le Guin quotes 🫶🏽❤️‍🔥

one of my great joys in my daily life is editing my group’s dnd notes

i had mused on it on my ig stories the other day too, but Entangled Life and Ted Chiang’s Stories of Your Life have a hand to hold…something definitely connects them in my head

also reading The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin as my current physical book and there’s definitely connections between these

i’ve been listening to Merlin Sheldrake’s “Entangled Life” audiobook and it has been a real brain balm. highly recommend to anyone who loves lil mushrooms and the fungus among us

kasha the black cat is staring at the camera with slightly narrowed yellow eyes. she is curled up in a light, warm wooden bench filled with hats and gloves. one of her paws is holding onto the leg of a wooden chair

thankfully, a sunny day with my girl

long live the grunkle. rest in peace, sweets

kasha & odin are snuggling right now and i weep

A tree - possibly an ent - with legs, arms and an unusually large bellybutton.

Had to clamber over a barbed wire fence, rip my coat and trespass to get a photo of this folkloric monster pretending half-successfully to be a tree. I have no regrets.