Aug 2, 2025

My youngest sister gave me a retirement present.. A guide to foraging north american mushrooms.

 I guess the big prizes are Lions Mane and the Indian Ghost Pipe. So I guess I'm looking for those two mushrooms for her, as she is a serious tincturer! In the meanwhile my first day into it, I can identify a few fungi that pop up right in my back yard:    

Deer mushroom

deer mushroom upside down & a few others that I haven't been able to identify, yet

Hydnellum Concrescens

Christmas wreath lichen.

Cortinarius bottom

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Jun 9, 2025

Bats are victims of bad PR.

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/beneficial/attracting-bats-to-garden.htm

Apr 3, 2025

Book of Nina: YOUR LINES.. (i guess this was for mr. m) forgot about it.

Book of Nina: YOUR LINES..: strewn across my bed ~ I could be trying to sleep under a ceiling made of bark, branch and leaf; freedom vents allowing the body to finally ...

Mar 6, 2025

Glad this winter is almost over.

 The Guest House

" This being human is a guest

house. Every morning a new arrival:

A joy, a depression, a meanness,

some momentary awareness comes

as an unexpected visitor. Welcome

and entertain them all!

Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,

who violently sweep your house

empty of its furniture, still treat

each guest honorably. He may be

clearing you out for some new

delight. The dark thought, the

shame, the malice, meet them at

the door laughing and invite

them in."

 Rumi