Rusty Ring

(Still Pleurotus ostreatus . I've posted on these before , but it never ceases to amaze me how attached this species is to the ...

Palladius said, "One day when I was suffering from boredom I went to Abba Macarius and said, 'What shall I do? My thoughts aff...

Salal (Gaultheria shallon) Western red cedar ( Thuja plicata ) (A particularly disturbing consequence of ...

(Acer rubrum) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

(Japanese maple [Acer palmatum] in December colours. )

"There’s no such thing as a cliché maple tree. You don’t walk by one and say, 'Oh God, there’s another maple tree!'" ...

(To the best of my ability to determine, this is the European honey mushroom Armillaria cepistipes . In the late 90s, specimens collec...

( My nephew holding a leaf of Acer macrophyllum, the Pacific bigleaf maple .)

the troops of autumn touch down in a blitzkrieg of small helicopters (No maple seeds where you live? Make your own .)

( Acer palmatum ; Japanese maple.)

Day 37. So I'm back. It's taking some time to recalibrate to the (by turns ...

You can't beat the stick for longevity. (Actually, you can't beat a stick at all. Think about it; it's like biting your teeth,...