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rustyiris.bsky.social
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@rustyiris.bsky.social
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Wild Woman of the woods 🇨🇦 Homesteading, Gardening, Foraging, Plants, Animals, Fungi, Nature.
Interested in lots of things.
Let's trade garden seeds! 📨🌱💚
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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · Jan 12
Very pretty example of a ghost flower, a real fungi friend, it gets it's nutrients from the mycilia of the Russula mushroom.

#Flowers 🌿🌱 #nature #fungifriends
Pinkish white translucent ghost flowers on the ground Brown and green leaves
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kerdraon-hascoet.bsky.social
Salut @john-y-cash.bsky.social
🙏J'espère que tu ne m'en voudras pas, je me suis inspirée d'une de tes photos (super série de monochromes 🤩)

Avec @tinekerdraon.bsky.social

Libre interprétation de "Sur les pavés, la foule"
Encre de Chine A5
Dessin à la plume 12/2025
#inkArt #illustration #scape
Vue du centre ville d'Angers. Dessin à l'encre de Chine, noir et blanc et ajout de rouge. Un personnage seul au fond de la rue étroite. De hauts immeubles sombres et une rue pavée au premier plan. Ciel rouge sang et plusieurs lunes. L'enseigne de la crêperie est bien visible... en tant que bretonne j'étais obligée de m'appliquer 😉 J'ai volontairement destructuré la perspective pour créer un effet expressionniste et inquiétant, qui perturbe le regard du spectateur.
December 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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carolannie.bsky.social
Rain, lichen, moss and barberry
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleWinter #ColorScrolling #WinterColors #RavennaNeighborhood
Bright red barberry berries glisten in the rain, sprinkled across the photo on brown branches with sharp thorns. The branches are also festooned with dusty blue green lichen, both fluffy (fruticose) and growing growing close to the branch (foliose). Here and there a clump of moss makes for an additional color splash. You can see raindrops forming on the berries. The overall effect is of spots of red and green falling towards the ground.
December 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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hairo-iroha.bsky.social
おやすみなさい

#地衣類 #lichen
#クリスマスリース
December 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
rustyiris.bsky.social
Cats, happy Caturday!

#Cats #Pets #Animals😸😺😻🐈🐱
By a window with green plants, and a book shelf, sit two cats looking regal, one cat is sleek black short haired and the other is a slightly longer haired bi-coloured tabby tux.
December 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
rustyiris.bsky.social
Late season Lupins seen on Oct 21

#Flowers #BloomScrolling #nature
One spike pink flowers green leaves by the road
December 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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nuiipointer.bsky.social
Three species of slime mold.

Top (black): Metatrichia floriformis
Middle (orange): Oligonema sp.
Bottom (brown): Trichia varia

#slimemold #myxomycetes #fungifriends
Three patches of slime mold fruiting bodies growing on a fallen tree.
December 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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spicynoodlez11.bsky.social
Standing amongst nature’s giants puts things in perspective. From an epic hike with @smartone.bsky.social earlier this year. #ForestFriday #Forests #Trees #Hiking #Nature #Photography #PNW #Redwoods #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #Don’tGiveUp
I love looking straight up into the forest canopy when I’m hiking and all of the trees seem to be pointing toward heaven. These are giant sequoias in the Northern California redwoods region, so they are massive, giant, gorgeous creatures, and we are very tiny in comparison. The forest floor is covered in green ferns and other foliage, the dark brownish red trunks are dotted with green moss and lichens, the needles up top are fuzzy green, and the sky beyond is light blue and dotted with white clouds that would eventually give way to an all out downpour on the way back.
December 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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arachnereid.bsky.social
🌝 Happy Cold Moon 🌝

❄️ I'm feeling good about sending out little pieces of holiday art today! So fun ✨

🎄 This year, I experimented with embroidering stars on the cards

I've always loved ✨ fun ✨ mail

#HolidayCards #SaveTheUSPS #artsky #crafts #witchsky
variety of cards I made with trees on snowy hills
December 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
rustyiris.bsky.social
Here's a gang of silly little monster guys I made to give some of the "kids" on my list. Also a mushroom and little wire frog

#Upcycled #handmade #fluffyMonsters 🌱🍄🙃😂
A group of silly faced fuzzy monsters
December 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
rustyiris.bsky.social
Wreath season

#Nature #handmade💚🌱
December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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rustyiris.bsky.social
Giant Red Amaranth like growing edible velvet, grows well with sunflowers, and is so versatile, eat cooked or raw like lettuce or so I spinach, use the seed heads whole fresh or dried in bread or cakes, also in tea. Adding colour

#Sunflowers #GardeningFeed 🌱🌿🌲 #Nature #flowers #myGarden #seedSwap
Sunny scene, with sunflowers and burgundy leaves and velvety seed heads of Amaranth, green leaved trees in the background
February 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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rustyiris.bsky.social
Fun Seeds mail, I sent to a pal in Europe
I pack it up in such a way to qualify for letter mail prices.

Let's trade seeds, and build biodiversity together!🌱💚
I could send the small one like this to almost anywhere in the world, within Canada I can send more, even Sunchoke tubers

#SeedSwap #seeds
A card with wildflowers, 4 colourful postage stamps, an origami flower with seeds inside, a tiny origami cat and silver snail. All on some pink tissue paper
February 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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rustyiris.bsky.social
Garden huckleberry/Solanum scabrum native to Africa in solanaceae family. Intense purple-black berries high in antioxidants, with little sweetness, Quick-maturing annual or perennial produces masses of fruit in a short season.

#SeedSwap #seeds #funfruit #gardeningFeed 🌱 #growYourOwn #fruit #nature
Dark purple round globular fruit clusters, and some green stems
February 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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rustyiris.bsky.social
I💚mail, crafting,sending&receiving it,especially when seeds are involved.
Let's trade seeds, and build biodiversity together!
I can send Sunchokes within Canada.
This package is a small version going across the Atlantic&includes a poetry chapbook see info in reply.
#SeedsSwap #seeds #penpals #mail
Crafted seed paper origami flowees, snails, a card with trout Lilly flower, poetry chapbook, postage stamps, white cedar needles leaves
January 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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carolannie.bsky.social
Bright pink crabapples. This tree was so odd: the crabapples were growing on short spurs all over the branches, so that it looked like a bright pink knobby mossy hedgehog tree.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #StreetTrees #Mosses #Lichen #MapleLeafNeighborhood
A couple of stems of bright pink crabapples grow on short spur stems off tree branches. The branches are covered with bright green moss and dusty blue green lichen patches. The pink of the crabapples contrasts sharply with the moss and lichen, making for seasonally festive natural decorations.
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
rustyiris.bsky.social
Some pretty tasty false Chanterelles mushrooms

#Mushrooms #Nature #fungifriends 🌱🍄
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
rustyiris.bsky.social
Basking in the gleam of these pretty pink pickled turnips
With beets

#fromMyGarden #HomeMade #Homesteading 🌱💜
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
rustyiris.bsky.social
Crystalline ICY lichens

#Nature #Lichens #fungifriends 🍄🌱
November 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
rustyiris.bsky.social
This plant is known as Morelle di Balbis and Fire and Ice

#Sunrise #nature #myGarden
Icy spicky plant, bare trese and orange and blue sunrise
October 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
rustyiris.bsky.social
Some lovely oyster mushrooms growing on a mossy log in the Autumn woods

#FungiFriday #Nature #mushrooms 🍄🌱
October 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
rustyiris.bsky.social
Some brick tops, grateful to see some mushrooms on Sept 19th

#Nature #Mushrooms 🌱🍄
October 15, 2025 at 10:43 AM
rustyiris.bsky.social
Some tiny honey mushrooms, moss, and chicken

#Mushrooms #chickens #Nature #homesteading 🍄🐓🐔🐦🌱
October 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
rustyiris.bsky.social
Zinnia, and Katydid

#bloomScrolling #bugSky #nature 🌱
October 11, 2025 at 11:54 PM
rustyiris.bsky.social
💜🌱 So cool Morelle di balbis/Litchi tomato with it's prickles survives overnight frosts after most others in the Solanaceae family are tottaly finished🌱

#Flowers #nature #gardening
October 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
rustyiris.bsky.social
The Bluejays are running the yard like pretty thugs, getting fat some seeds around
🌱💙
#letsGoBluejays #Birds #nature
Bluejay birds and fall colours
October 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM