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Sparky Harlan (she/her)
@sparkyharlan.bsky.social
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Worked 40 years as CEO of nonprofit housing 1000 homeless youth and families a night in Silicon Valley. #justice #LGBTQ #housing #homelessness. Live in Santa Cruz Mountains in CA. Grew up near Yosemite. #hiking #gardening #photography #fungi 🍄
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Boot is bluer in light. 😊
November 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Fungi circus on rotten log. #fungifriends #fungi #forest #stunday #naturephotography
Sulphur tuffs, mycena, turkey tails fungi on wet log.
November 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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It’s a wonderful day in the neighborhood, will you be mine? #fungifriends #fungi #landscape #landscapephotography
Sulphur tuffs hanging out on fallen douglas fir tree. Trees in background
November 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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I like discovering old wrecked cars on my hikes especially with no roads to be found. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekUForUnloved #hiking
Old blue Volkswagen bug partially buried in redwood duff and dirt. Missing hood, windows. Deep in a redwood canyon.
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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It’s a wonderful day in the forest until the next rain storm turns us into mush. #fungifriends #fungi #landscape #landscapephotography #hiking
Small clusters of mushrooms on mossy log reaching for redwood trees and blue sky.
November 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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When the local amusement park sold off its old displays my Santa Cruz Mountain neighbors moved them into their yards. Giant red mushroom for #redWed #fungifriends #yardart
Large red top concrete mushroom with gnomes and other tiny statues in front of redwood trees.
November 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Sometimes it is more about the lichen (Ramalina menziesii) than the fungi..or
moss. Hard to pick just one. A salute to CA state’s #lichen. #fungifriends #moss #fungi #nature #naturephotography
Ramalina menziesii lichen hanging down with small mushroom at top larger mushroom above it. Moss covered log.
November 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Chicken of the Woods, time for dinner. #fungifriends #fungi #nature #photography
This was one of two large clusters of Chicken in the Woods mushrooms. My shoe is next to orange and yellow banded shelf mushrooms.
November 19, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Caught up in the rain, moss, and spiderwebs. #fungifriends #fungi #moss #nature #naturephotography
One tiny mushroom growing out the side of a wet mossy green log. Spiderweb in background.
November 18, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Crow stealing my persimmons. #BirdoftheDay #birds #trees #Eastcoastkin #photography
Black crow sitting on a branch staring out from a bunch of orange persimmons.
November 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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I sometimes look down instead of up in my redwood forest. #forestFriday #hiking #photography #scape
Green algae covered pond with green moss covered redwood tree stump with tuffs of green grass along the shoreline.
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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I love finding joshua trees along a lonely stretch of highway. #trees #nature #photography
Joshua trees in dessert with rocks and sky in background.
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Mycena mushrooms hanging in there after the atmospheric river dumped 5” of rain yesterday. #fungiFriday #fungifriends #moss #photography
Log with moss and redwood tree debris. Numerous tiny white mushrooms with long narrow stems growing from side.
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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A late season rose. #bloomscrolling #roses #photography
Red rose bloom darkened.
November 12, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Morning shadows over the southern Utah mountains. #RockinTuesday #landscape #Utah #hiking #photography
Flat red top mountains with deep shadows.
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Almost no white warts on this red top Amanita Muscaria. My friends dragged me out to collect edible mushrooms but I just like to take photos of the poisonous ones. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #hiking #nature #photography
Red top white stem mushroom (common name, fly agaric) growing in leaf duff and grass.
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Rotting, soggy mushroom turns green after the rains. #greenSat #fungifriends #fungi #nature #fall #photography
Green top old soggy mushroom surrounded by redwood leaves and yellow leaf.
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Sorrel leaf and fairy inkcaps (Coprinellus disseminatus). My neighbor came outside to make sure I wasn’t having a medical emergency lying on the ground. Nope, just taking pictures. #FungiFriday 🍄 #mycology #fungi #nature #Photography
One green sorrel leaf and colony of fairy inkcaps that do not ooze black inky substance like the other ink caps.
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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My hikes are ending in the dark these days as I stop to photograph all the new Angel Wings (Pleurocybella porrigens). #FungiFriday #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology #NaturePhotography #giking #photography
Twisting Angel Wing mushrooms reaching for the sun shining through the redwood trees. Growing on a mossy log with gills showing. Pleurocybella porrigens growing on log in a creek. Creek behind with the Fall Creek Trail in the background.
November 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Today’s new mushroom before the top was chewed up. #YellowThu #FungiFriends
#Fungi
Brown topped mushroom with yellow sponge bottom. On log with redwood leaves and moss.
November 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Is it really #YellowThu for #TheColoroftheDay? Banana slug was eating its way over a fungi field during yesterday’s rainy day. #fungifriends #fungi #photography #eastcoastkin
Yellow banana slug on rain soaked fungi covering a log.
November 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Angel's wings fungi showing off. #fungifriends #fungi #bloomscrolling #photography
White curly shaped mushrooms growing on mossy log.trees in background
November 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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California morning where the palm tree joins up with the redwoods for a #BlueSkyMonday #photography
Palm tree silhouette in front of light orange billowing cloud. Mist in the redwood trees in background.
November 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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We’re back! Rainy season has started and fungi is exploding. #fungifriends #Fungi #MushroomMonday #photography
Fungi on log.
November 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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There’s hiking and then there’s “hiking” with my group. After ten days of exploring I was done. #Utah #landscape #hiking ##photography
Goblin Valley State Park in Utah. Hiking group seen scrambling up redrock gully to notch at top to see a cave.
November 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM