Mycology, Botany, and nature-appreciation
6 Jun 2022 2 minute read 1 comment tych0_21
This year has been a bit of a bust when it comes to edible spring mushrooms like morels. The prolonged cold followed by a seemingly overnight shift to summer-like heat has prevented many of the species that should be fruiting abundantly by now from s...
25 May 2022 2 minute read 2 comments tych0_21
Today, I am happy to share a few images taken from this last weekend of a White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) fawn. While hiking along a bog in western Michigan, USA, I came across this young deer laying peacefully in a bed of dead leaves not...
23 May 2022 1 minute read 6 comments tych0_21
Despite striking out with my attempts at hunting for morels this year, I have been quite successful in finding plenty of delicious oyster mushrooms to bring home for the table. Even though they were not my coveted morels, oysters are a welcome consol...
19 May 2022 2 minute read 0 comments tych0_21
The Blue Racer (Coluber constrictor foxii) is a subspecies of the North American Racer (Coluber constrictor). While the North American Racer's geographic range stretches across the entirety of the continental United States as well as North to Britis...
18 May 2022 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21
This week, I took a walk through a local park that sits in a small valley carved out by a slow-moving stream. While much of the surrounding land has been converted to corn monocultures, the moist, alluvial soil that covers this park makes for an oasi...
4 May 2022 2 minute read 0 comments tych0_21
Other the last two weeks, I have been taking regular walks to the woods and wetlands near my home to see what wildlife and early spring fungi I am able to uncover. I have also been photographing the many wildflower species that have been blooming ove...
4 May 2022 2 minute read 5 comments tych0_21
It's been a cold spring, but at last, the wildflowers have begun to bloom, and life is returning to the forest. Over the last 2 weeks, I have been photographing some of the many brilliant flowering and non-flowering (or yet-to-flower) species that ha...
13 Apr 2022 2 minute read 1 comment tych0_21
This week, I took another walk through the woods of western Michigan, USA to discover what early spring life there was to uncover. While the warm weather still eludes my region of the world, many of the native animals, plants, and fungi alike have be...
26 Mar 2022 1 minute read 3 comments tych0_21
This week, I enjoyed my first walk of spring. The snow has finally melted away and brought forth new life in the forest. While most trees have not yet begun to bud, some hearty plants have already burst out from the chilled soil. I made my way throug...
21 Mar 2022 1 minute read 4 comments tych0_21
As miserable as the first few days of day light savings may be in terms of the hour of lost sleep, one clear benefit of the shift is the extra daylight that I can use to explore the beautiful woods near my home. This week, I made my way to a local l...
