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∴ Forest drives always complete my soul, coming across a river with fall foliage & mossy trees? Now you’re making my heart sing. ✦ ∴ ⁣

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✶⁣ Never miss a photo by following my stories, I’ll always post the link to the image. ✶⁣

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∴ I made sure to get out for minus tides & found a magical area that gave a fun peak through to some glorious starfish, nudibranchs, & sea anemones. I love getting out to the beaches when the minus tides happen, a lot of the underbelly of the rocks are all exposed showing an abundance of sea life you usually don’t see. This was nudibranch cove though, on the left side of the image, that sea wall had about 10 of them across the whole wall. Then back on the sea rock you mainly see has about 5 more on that rock, I am sure there were many more I could not see. The species I found was a Monterey Dorid, I encourage everyone that is not familiar with them to look that up. Thank you everyone for continuing to follow! I know this app is seeming more dead everyday, I am just going to keep doing me though & sharing my work. Much love. ✌︎ ✧ ∴

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I have been sitting on this image for way to long, it was taken June 2021. Decided to go for a drive out in the Siuslaw National Forest around Yachats & came across this massive patch of Foxgloves. Not pictured are the white ones growing further up the hill. If you look in the distance sometimes you'll see a castle that moves around the wasteland with four bird-like legs. ✨ ∴⁣

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∴ I have finally found you. A #webcap, or #cortinarius the very distinct web like partial veil is something I have longed to get macro shots. The partial veil has such a delicacy to it, just like cobwebs do. I came across a gorgeous patch of these guys this year. I brought one back to the house for close up macro shots & I couldn’t be more happy with the outcome. Major plus when I find purple mushrooms. 💜∴

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∴ Came across this spooky bunch last year on my road. I love how shaggy manes tend to look like ghost, & that they start to show in all of October. If you notice the one off to the far left has two pine needles of debris on its cap, to me they look like eyes. Therefore I give you this Halloween Boo-a-shroom! 👻 ∴⁣

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∴ There’s something peaceful about watching a Blue Heron delicately walk around the tide pools looking for a morning feast. Slowly inspecting the pools around them, making each step carefully. It’s of something else when you realize you’re experiencing nature unfold in front of you. ∴

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∴ It was the morning of my birthday, & I decided to get out to the tide pools for a morning walk. For the first time in the 4 years I have lived here, I found a Porcelain Crab! Beyond ecstatic I kept investigating the sea wall in front of me, & to my surprise I come across a whole area of baby crabs all snuggled up in the mussels byssus threads until the tide returns staying safe from danger. It was difficult at first to find a crab that wasn’t deep in-between the mussels for my macro to capture it, until I had come across this little beauty who was in an open enough area. ∴

✶⁣Pictured is a baby porcelain crab. ✶

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✶⁣Pictured during minus tides, with Sea Stars, Anemones, Kelp, & Seaweed. ✶ ∴ Minus tides have become a sacred place for me, being able to walk among these creatures in their habitats is something to be greatly moved by. Majority of the time I feel like I am walking among the galaxies; Sea Stars & Giant Green Anemones covering the rocks all around me, along with the snapping & popping of the mussels I can hear. These environments are only exposed a handful of times throughout the year, so it’s imperative to get out there when it does. Grateful to live where I am able to get out & do this. ∴ Thank you for following! ♡

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∴ Always has been intriguing to me that creatures in our oceans resembled what we see in our skies at night, though is it the ocean reflecting the sky or the sky reflecting the ocean. We look up at big balls of fire burning thousands of light years away in our skies & see them as stars, looking down we have Sea Star creatures that look like jewels & come in array of magickal colors that cover our ocean floors. We’ve seen Black Holes that burst of colors we never thought could be possible, but are. There is a creature that does this under the cover of the ocean a Sea Anemone, dancing with the waves as they come & go giving off quite a show. To me the center of the anemone is the middle of a Black Hole & the tentacles are the materials that swirls around it. ⁣I’m deeply in love with the colors that came out in this one. ∴ ⁣ ✶⁣Pictured is a Aggregating Anemone ✶⁣

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∴ If I like a moment, ⁣ for me, ⁣ personally, ⁣ I don’t like to have the ⁣ distraction of the camera. ⁣ I just want to stay in it. ⁣ ⁣ …Stay in it?⁣ ⁣ Yeah, Right there.⁣ Right here. ∴⁣ ⁣ ~The Secret Life of Walter Mitty⁣

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∴ I was wandering around the forest during mushroom season, letting the forest lead me to the treasures she likes to hide under her skirts. When I see bright red/orange my excitement just peaks, I know it’s an Amanita (or one is so hopeful). I wonder what the mushroom see’s when I stop mid walk to run towards it to admire its beauty, snap some glamour shots, & then admire some more. This one was tucked under a huge fern, I decided to shoot this one mid-walk to the mushroom, the framing of the fern leaves were just too perfect to resist. ∴⁣ 𐄁⁣⁣⁣ 𐄁⁣⁣✶⁣Amanita Muscaria (Fly Agaric)⁣

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∴ Not entirely sure what type of coral fungus this is, but the colors were just stunning to spot among the deep forest green. I practically ran to this when I first saw it, when getting closer I couldn’t get over how huge of a cluster it was, & the colors being so vibrant as well. The second image is a tighter shot to see the smaller details, to me they all look like little hands reaching up. ∴⁣

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∴ Go into a forest, a meadow, or a garden - anywhere plants grow & die, ⁣where insects, birds, & animals forage. In any natural environment, ⁣death is constantly occurring. Leaves drop to the ground; plants end their lifespan. ⁣A butterfly ceases its flattering & falls. A rabbit lies dead behind a bush. ∴⁣ ⁣ ∴ Instantly the process of decay begins subtle cues of scent or some unknown six cents alerts all the families of creatures that feed on death, from the tiny one-celled bacteria & fungi, to the beetles and termites, & on up to the vultures & coyotes.⁣ The earth takes in the dead through thousand mouths that reduce each body to its most basic elements, & those elements, in turn, feed the living, & nourish the root of the great trees, & send the vultures winging aloft. ∴⁣ ~ Starhawk ⁣ 𐄁⁣⁣⁣ 𐄁⁣⁣⁣ 𐄁⁣⁣Close up of decaying Shaggy Mane with ink droplets from the cap.⁣

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∴ Finally found an Amanita on a mossy hill while walking along in the forest, perfect for being able to get that gorgeous under the cap shots. The bokeh that I was able to acomplish in this shot just makes my heart sing, then the sun light breaking through in between the gills on the cap just completes it all. ∴

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∴ I came across a large patch of Bird’s Nest Fungus all together on some dead branches & wanted to really capture the eggs that reside in the nest. I was super stoked about finding some with the eggs still in the nest & the one behind it is just about to break open as well.  I’ve searched all my books then the internet trying to ID this guy. I believe it may be Jellied Bird’s Nest Fungus (Nidula Candida), these are no bigger than 1.5 cm tall; 0.8 cm wide. ∴⁣

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∴ Elfin Saddle (Helvella lacunosa) ∴ I found a handful of these when I first moved here, but never got any clear shots of the stalks. I came across a nice patch of them & made sure I took more time in shooting the detail on the stalks of these babes. I love all the texture & detail that they have. I can imagine small forest Fae looking out one of those holes as a window back at me. I can also see why it’s called an Elfin Saddle, the caps look just like a saddle & small enough for the forest Elves to sit on. ∴ Curiouser & Curiouser. ∴

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∴ Close up of some pull ball mushrooms that have reached the end of their life cycle covered in the morning rain. Make sure scroll through to see some close ups, don’t miss all that beautiful detail. The peak of mushroom season has a come & gone, but it hasn’t ended for me, still shuffling through images of the fungi I’ve come across this season. I really love this image, the rain droplets look like _ all over the mushrooms. ∴ Thank you for following! ♡