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Cauliflower of the woods

August 14, 2020 - For most of this week, a good deal of my walking time was spent walking my neighbor's wonderful dog, which is one of my...
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Late bloomers

January 05, 2020 - With the weather remaining relatively warm and wet, it should really come as no surprise that mushrooms decided to emerg...
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Natural jelly

January 03, 2020 - When it comes to identification these days, mushrooms are murder. Several decades ago, I was actually a pretty competent...
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Night hunt

November 10, 2018 - One of the best parts of my "job" as a nature documentarian is that I have access to the newest and most improved field...
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Fun with fungi

November 07, 2018 - Some of the mushrooms are big and obvious, but other members of the Kingdom Fungi are easily overlooked. Of course, it's...
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The color purple

October 08, 2018 - One of the most eye-catching mushrooms in our woods is currently popping up just about everywhere you look. The Viscid P...
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Horn o' plenty

October 03, 2018 - The abundance and diversity of local mushrooms continues to increase around here, what with our frequent rains and tempe...
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Soft stalactites

September 27, 2018 - It's been an amazing year, what with our abundant precipitation, for fungi, and everywhere you look, the woods are reple...
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Unexpected dinner item

September 19, 2018 - Sometime last year, I bought a bag of "organic potting soil" that was at clearance prices at one of the local hardware s...
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Full house

August 25, 2018 - One of the most time-honored pieces of advice is the admonition "don't sweat the small stuff," as well as the corollary,...
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Unexpected treat

August 14, 2018 - Given all the recent rain and heat, there are mushrooms popping up everywhere. These arose in the grass by one of our la...
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Another mushroom mystery

July 29, 2018 - After the recent deluge that, amen, amen, removed us from the yellow "abnormally dry" designation at the U.S. Drought Mo...
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Slimy discovery

September 20, 2017 - When I was a kid, life was certainly easier—and so were biological discoveries. Case in point: these elegant sporangia a...
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Self-destructing fungi

July 10, 2017 - Given that we're getting very close to Henry David Thoreau's 200th birthday, I've been very much in HDT mode, which is t...
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Balancing beam

October 14, 2016 - Joy of joys, the woods are ringing again with the sound of girlish laughter! My granddaughter Stasia is here for the wee...
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Definitely X-rated

October 09, 2016 - For the first time in what seems like months, it rained steadily and hard all day. But by late afternoon, it had tapered...
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Charm school

October 02, 2016 - With what little rain we were blessed to receive—only a bit more than half an inch—finally out of the picture, I trekked...
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Pretty parasol

September 30, 2016 - We've had a little bit of blessed rain recently, and while it's not enough to nudge us out of the Severe drought categor...
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The gamblers

January 13, 2016 - There have been blossoms on the hellebores, open flowers on the periwinkles and the dandelions, and beautiful lettuce—th...
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Christmas Eve surprise

December 24, 2015 - The weather has gone from merely crazy to totally insane. The temperature today, Christmas Eve, is supposed to reach the...
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Natural jelly

December 09, 2015 - I filed the last of my magazine articles today and this, in theory, means that I'm free to walk, explore, and document t...
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Lilliputian landscape

November 15, 2015 - I've always been attracted to very small scenes, and while I've certainly wanted to own those gargantuan telephoto lense...
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Mushroom mystery semi-solved

October 02, 2015 - It's been a slow late-summer and early-fall for mushrooms, and that, of course, is the fault of the persistent drought....
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Mushrooming

September 25, 2015 - This has not been, so far, a notable autumn for mushrooms, and you can blame that paucity on the drought. Fungi, of cour...
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The joy of the hunt

July 26, 2015 - When my granddaughter Stasia is in residence, most of my time is going to be spent on the trail. I love having the compa...
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The last shall be first

January 04, 2015 - I have long given up making new year's resolutions, for, like all too many people with good intentions, I don't manage t...
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Hope and change?

November 04, 2014 - Today is election day, and while the campaign leading up to it has been the most vile I've experienced in the four-plus-...
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Tiny mysteries

October 26, 2014 - What with the drought and all, it's been a pretty meager mushroom season. I've found very few edibles—actually, so far,...
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Fungal neighbors

October 08, 2014 - We've had a few on- and off-again bouts of rain, and the mushrooms are beginning to respond. On a walk into the woods, I...
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