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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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Enlichenment
January 04, 2020 - Under normal circumstances, it should be bone-chillingly cold and white-blanketed, with all signs of life, save the hard...
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Modest ebb
January 12, 2019 - There is painfully little going on in the natural world, as chillier weather and an inordinate amount of writing have de...
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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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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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Living horsehairs
October 10, 2017 - One of the great joys of autumn rain, besides an easing of my anxiety about running out of well-gleaned drinking water,...
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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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Unnatural light
June 12, 2017 - It was around 9:30 on an incredibly warm and still night and I was just about to start getting the air-conditioner insta...
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Spent smokers
January 19, 2017 - I can never be sure about all too many mushrooms, and maybe, one of these days, I'll join a mycology club and finally le...
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Fungus porn
December 10, 2016 - With my granddaughter at her aunt's for a sleepover—always a favorite event in Stasia's life, and a big draw away from h...
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Rainy day lichens
November 30, 2016 - The rain continued—a blessing, to be sure—as did my cold—a curse, without a doubt—but as the storm abated, I decided to...
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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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Elf chalice
May 14, 2016 - While I would love to be engaged in mushroom hunting at this time of year, the favorite May fungi would be Morels and, a...
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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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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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Land coral
July 21, 2015 - The first time I tried marriage on for size, the two members of this ill-fated couple discovered that we just didn't fit...
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Pretty parasite
July 17, 2015 - I was on a mission this morning, a refreshingly chilly start to the day. My task was to document a refuge that two dear...
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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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