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I recently learned that licorice ferns (Polypodium glycyrrhiza) often live on bigleaf maple trees (Acer macrophyllum). The ferns come out this time of year when the maples drop their leaves and let the light through. I had always admired this kind of moss monster, but I am only now realizing they are almost all maples. 💚

#mosstodon #ferns #rainforest #BigleafMaples

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Please appreciate this 3 hour time lapse I took this morning of a Pleated Inkcap (maybe???) blooming in my succulent pot!

#Mosstodon #LichenSubscribe #Mushroom #Moss

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#BOTD author William Hope Hodgson. His years as a sailor informed many of his early horror stories. He would later pioneer cosmic and dystopian horror, with influential works like The House on the Borderland and The Night Land. He also created occult detective, Thomas Carnacki. #books
#ghosts #bookstodon #horror

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Samhain / Halloween vibes at Fourwinds yesterday, the walls are the remains of a school built for the nearby quarry worker’s children.
#Dartmoor #Devon #photography #autumn

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Depiction of Bael, “the first king of hell”, with the head of a toad, a man, and a cat — one of the many illustrations by Louis le Breton for the 1863 edition of Jacques Collin de Plancy’s "Dictionnaire infernal". More here: publicdomainreview.org/essay/d

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Day 26: Mask
I found this little guy on a tomb in the tiny village of Wherwell (where the myth of the Cockatrice came from) and loved him so thought I’d make him into a print. Not sure of his origins other than that!

#Mask #MDWC24D26 #Halloween #Costume #TrickorTreat #spookyseason #October #Drawing #Illustration #printmaker #Print #gold #black #graveyard #grave #tomb #spooky #guardian #linocut #goth #gothic #gargoyle

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Stream (Newlycombe lake), near Norsworthy bridge, Burrator last week, #Dartmoor, #Devon.

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Plate from M. E. Descourtilz’s Atlas des Champignons (1827), a delightful series of colour lithographs of mushrooms, divided into those that are edible, poisonous and “suspect” — publicdomainreview.org/collect

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This was taken this morning here in Glastonbury about an hour before sunrise along my favourite lane.

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Pied-billed Grebe with minnow. This little one kept me entertained in the moonlight before dawn on Saturday, I was glad it stuck around for some actual decent shooting light! 😆

Taylor Creek, Lake Tahoe, CA

#laketahoe
#salmonrun
#BirdPhotography

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A bit of autumnal forest dampness on a hike today. A little dark, a little spooky, but mostly just pretty.

Twin Falls trail, Olallie State Park, Central Cascades in Washington State (USA).

#moss #mosstodon #PNW #Seattle #Washington #forest #trees #autumn #fall #nature

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