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Some shrooms stuck to sticks. #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

2026-09-25: A banner day on the local trail; I took over 150 photos of fungi. Here's a handful of my favourites. #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

2026-09-20: More mushrooms encountered on a walk and on a visit to a public garden. I especially like the aged Amanitas, looking like sun hats.

2026-09-20: Two big guys encountered yesterday. The white one looks like it has a face on its right side. #FungiFriends

2026-09-15: Due to torrential rains and broken gutters, the threshold of the basement door has started to rot out. I tried covering it until I could fix the gutter, but inadvertently create a mini greenhouse for this little guy (about an inch in diameter). #FungiFriends

A mass of mushrooms popped up in a neighbour's yard this week. Some variety of Amanita, I'd guess, with the largest ones being about six inches across. My phone camera wasn't cooperating that day so they appear washed out; they were a soft orangey yellow colour. #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

Had a good long walk yesterday, saw Lady Slippers, a chipmunk (usually only see squirrels), irises, forest floor carpeted in seed fluff, and the largest tadpoles we've ever seen (about six inches long). #NatureWalk #NaturePhotography

This batch of tiny labels came with a set of plastic cases (shown in background) but I'll never use them for that so I decided to decorate them for use with my junk journals. Coloured with oxide ink and then stamped. #junkjournalling #junkjournaling #journalephemera #papercrafts

Spent the last week or so making pressed flower ephemera for junk journals, to try and use up some of the dried flowers I've collected. Haven't even made a dent. 😆 These aren't complete, there will be stamping and more decorating. #junkjournalling #junkjournaling #journalephemera #papercrafts

Found some little guys amongst the Forget-Me-Nots. #FungiFriends

First test stamp of some tall, narrow numbers I carved from one of those pink Speedball lino blocks. I sized the numbers to fill as much of the line block as possible so they are about 3" tall (7.5cm). Very happy with the results so far. #junkjournal #junkjournalling #linocut #stampcarving

A pretty one, a not-so-pretty one, and a bonus burl (maybe?) covered in moss and lichen (maybe?). #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

Skulls, skulls, skulls, and more skulls, part II. #WunderkammerWednesday #CabinetOfCuriosities

Spotted on a walk around the neighbourhood. #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

A few views of a trunk hosting quite a mess of bracket fungi, and a handful of bright orange gelatinous...things. #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

Skulls, skulls, skulls, and more skulls. No cabinet is complete without a few skulls. #WunderkammerWednesday #CabinetOfCuriosities

Some shelf fungi encountered on a walk in January. #fungifriends

Christmas ornaments I made last year, also upcycled from toilet paper rolls. #PaperCrafts #ChristmasCrafts

Been making small Christmas tree ornaments using recycled materials (book pages and toilet roll cardboard). #PaperCrafts #ChristmasCrafts

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

Some mushroom finds during September. #FungiFriends #FungiFriday

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

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

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

A bright orange slice. #fungifriends

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. 🧪🔭 eos.org/articles/bla...

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

#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.

From October 2024. #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

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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. #CabinetofCuriosities

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.

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

Found another account sharing postcards from the past. 👻

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.

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

Two trinket shelves for this week's #WunderkammerWednesday showing smaller collections of random objects within the #CabinetofCuriosities itself.

From my #CabinetofCuriosities for this week's #WunderkammerWednesday is this antique pocket microscope, also known as a field microscope as they were intended to be used in actual fields. Purchased from a local woman who found it in their attic. Likely dates from the 1850s.

Speaking of wire, here are a few pieces of wire #bobbinlace that I made years ago when it was all the rage (in bobbin lace circles). The oval piece is actually two parts and was intended as part of a larger doily. I never made any of the other rounds. #wireart

I think wire wrapping is #1 on my list of hobbies I'd like to try if I ever wanted to start yet another hobby that I don't have time or space for.

You've probably heard that "we are stardust," but this graphic breaks it down and tells you what kind of stars your dust came from--and which elements didn't come from stars at all. 🧪 svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13873/

#FungiFriday #FungiFriends #FungiFebruary This one, with it's heart shape, seemed appropriate for February.

Broken so far this month: - washing machine (fixed it) - vacuum cleaner (tossed it) - eyeglasses frame (held together with cello tape) - hand mixer's immersion blender (used old clunky blender) I feel like this will not be my year.

My, that week flew by disturbingly quickly. For this week's #WunderkammerWednesday we have another pairing -- shadow box containing the horn from a male springbok, and a core from the horn of a water buffalo. #CabinetofCuriosities

Not all my shiny things are useless but...yeah.