Seasonal observations, IDs, and stories.
First Quiet Voices of Spring The first colors beneath bare branches. Rue Anemones bloom after rain — fragile, pale, and brief — marking the quiet return of life to the woodland floor.
The Day of the Jumping Mushrooms Squirrel, Turkeytail, Slimespike. A morning story that changed under a spore print.
Turkeytail Pored underside. Concentric bands and fine pores on dead wood.
Blackening Slimespike Spore Print Gray/black spore print. A slimy cap and a Douglas-fir “jump.”
Funeral Bell Spore Print Likely the deadly Funeral Bell. Small, caramel-brown gilled mushrooms on moss covered log.
Mucous Cort Spore Print Cortinarius mucosus A soft, rusty spore print, its color—neither pale cream nor dark brown—marks.
Floury Amanita Powder-dusted caps. Pale, poised, and photogenic — admired, not handled.
Bleeding Bonnet Mycena haematopus. Three days beneath the trees — a quiet record of the Bleeding Bonnet’s surrender to another fungus.
Comparing Four Pine Species Austrian Pine · Jack Pine · Red Pine · Lodgepole Pine This guide compares four common or commonly planted pines in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest.
Lichen Study Field guides to lichen Study.
Comparing Four Lichen Species Field guides to lichen Study.
