Mycology, Botany, and nature-appreciation
12 Apr 2021 7 minute read 5 comments tych0_21
This guide is meant to give step-by-step instructions for how to both identify Fomes fomentarious, a fungi that often goes by the common names of tinder conk, hoof fungus, tinder polypore, or even ice man fungus, as well as how to process samples of...
10 Apr 2021 1 minute read 1 comment tych0_21
To celebrate the recent success Hive has been having, I have decided to cut the prices on several pieces from my Physical Gallery collection on NFT Showroom. Prices on the following pieces have been adjusted with the lowest price starting at only 5 H...
10 Apr 2021 2 minute read 5 comments tych0_21
Today I visited a bog called The Saul Lake Bog Nature Preserve. The preserve is named after John and Mikel Saul, two brothers who emigrated from Ireland and lived on the land beginning in the 1860s. Today, the property is established as a conservati...
8 Apr 2021 1 minute read 2 comments tych0_21
Today, I went out hoping to find my first morels of the year; no luck just yet! That isn't to say that there were not plenty of other teasures waiting to be found out in the woods. Rather than focus my search on one region, I split my time between tw...
5 Apr 2021 1 minute read 2 comments tych0_21
This weekend, I visited a nature reserve situated around a forested lake in Western Michigan, USA. With the coming of Spring and the beginning of the breeding season for the region's many migratory and non-migratory bird species, I went out hoping to...
3 Apr 2021 1 minute read 3 comments tych0_21
Today I returned to one of my favorite woods near my home, a mixed conifer and hardwood forest whose floor is dotted with granite boulder left behind from receding glaciers some 12,000 years ago. While on my walk today, I was visited by a few feather...
2 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21
I was inspired to make this piece after running into a few Eastern garter snakes on my recent walks through the woods. This is the newest piece in my Living Nature collection. Find this piece and my other work for sale on NFT Showroom. This Piece: h...
1 Apr 2021 2 minute read 0 comments tych0_21
This week, I visited a local park consisting of woods hills, creek valleys, and open prairie. For this walk, I decided to stick mostly to the creek valley as well as the woods, following the trails that banked the creek as I went. The land was previ...
27 Mar 2021 1 minute read 1 comment tych0_21
This weekend I decided to visit Manistee National Forest, a Federally protected forest in the United States, that, along with the adjacent Huron National Forest, accounts for nearly 1 million acres of native forest habitat. Over the course of the ear...
25 Mar 2021 1 minute read 2 comments tych0_21
I wanted share some of my photos from a walk earlier today. I didn't get any wildlife shots this time around, but I did find many fresh fungi while on my walk. I have attached images along with my assumed species IDs. There were also several fungi th...
