John
johnn3000.bsky.social
John
@johnn3000.bsky.social
I Likes what I likes & I Shares what I shares

Science, Art, Photography, Nature, Environment, History, Politics, Music, Spirituality, Archaeology
Initially thought Turkeytail, but now leaning toward Hairy Bracket. Even with Google lens and my mushroom book I'm still unsure. Any ideas?

#fungifriday #fungi #bracket #birch
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
"There was an old owl liv'd in an oak,
The more he heard, the less he spoke;
The less he spoke, the more he heard,
O, if men were all like that wise bird!"

#Lichen #moss #cemetery #owl #statue #crucifix #cross
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
A nice looking mushroom
Bay Bolete (Boletus Badius) Edible

#Mushrooms #Fungifriends #Foraging
November 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
More lovely books arrived. Just finished Super-Frog in around 30 minutes. Beautifully illustrated, Kafkaesque surrealism. So glad I've discovered Murakami. Strange pictures is for my daughter but I'm not sure I can wait until after Xmas to nab it and read it for myself. 🤤
#Booksky #Japanesefiction
November 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Received this today, it's packed with photographs & information on mushrooms and other fungi, might have to buy Grasses Ferns Mosses & Lichens next, also by Roger Phillips.

#booksky #mushrooms #FungiFriends
November 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
What you might envision an alien landscape to look like. - Old decaying tree stump teeming with life.

#lichen #moss #nature
November 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
🎵 "They call me mellow yellow" 🎵

"Yellow Brain" (Tremella mesenterica)
a parasitic jelly fungus that feeds on fungi that feed on dead wood. Either that or it's lookalike Golden Ear (Tremella aurantia) which is also parasitic so I am reading. Can't see any evidence of what it is feeding on.
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Spent way too much time staring at this log that lichen, moss and fungi have made home.

#lichen #moss #fungi
November 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Accidental shot taken as I was lying on the ground trying to snap a mushroom with my phone (which I missed completely somehow) but it made for a nice picture of the trees.

#Nature #Woodland #Sequoia #Trees
November 18, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Really like the look of this Mushroom with it's spikes and fibre-like cap. I think it's "Old Man Of The Woods" but can't find any similar photos online with this tan shade so please correct me if wrong.
#Mushroom #Fungi #Fungus #FungiFriends #Nature #Photography
#Nature #Woodland #Forest #Mycology
November 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
November 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Large orange coloured fungi with white outer edge (possibly Fomitopsis pinicola)

#mushroom #fungi #woodland #fungus #Shrooms #FungiFriends
November 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Thought this was pretty cool with it's translucent cap.
November 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Love the way the rain droplets were clinging to this.

#Mushroom #Fungi #Nature
November 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
November 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Found these at the bottom of a tree. Initially thought they were insect eggs but on closer inspection they're slime molds (possibly Leocarpus fragilis) but don't quote me on that.

#SlimeMold #ForestFinds #MossAndMold #Myxogastria #Myxomycetes #Woodland #StrangeBiology #Nature
November 16, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Not confident naming Mushrooms and Lichen etc. but a Big Parasol Mushroom (I think)
Found nr. the Serbian Cemetery part of Brookwood Cemetery, Woking Surrey.
November 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
You sheltered me from harm, kept me warm..."

#Mushrooms #FungiFriends #Nature #Woodland #Autumn #Mycology
November 16, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Tiny mushroom popping up through the sea of autumn leaves

#mushroom #Mycology #Nature #ForestFinds #woodland #Fungi
November 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked."Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice."You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.
#AmanitaMuscaria #Mushroom #FlyAgaric #Fungus #Nature
November 15, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Some fairly well developed lichen.
Brookwood Cemetery, Woking, Surrey.

#lichen #nature #woodland
November 15, 2025 at 10:48 PM
"I am the way, and the truth, and the lichen"

~Taken at Brookwood Cemetery, Woking, Surrey.

#Lichen #Moss #Jesus #Christ #Sculpture #Art #Nature
November 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Common Field Grasshopper

Horsell Common, Surrey, England

#Nature #Heathland #SSSI #SPA #Wildlife #Insects #Photography #Grasshopper
November 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
November 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Southern Wood Ant (Formica rufa)
Horsell Common, Surrey. A real place & diverse landscape of heathland, woodland, & meadow which is home to many species of wildlife. Such a nice place that even Martians want to visit (See War Of The Worlds, H.G Wells)

#Nature #woodland #Invertebrates #HorsellCommon
November 14, 2025 at 11:07 AM