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Jeff, Stopping by Woods
@jeffontherock.bsky.social
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Hiker, backpacker, forager, fisher, gardener, fossil finder, iPhone nature pic taker, nature nerd. Retired (biologist, ec. dev. practitioner, entrepreneur). 🇨🇦
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One of dozens of coastal waterfalls along Newfoundland’s 300+km East Coast Trail.
#Newfoundland #trail #hiking #backpacking #waterfall
January 6, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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Roundleaf sundew leaf. One of the #carnivorous plants we have here in #newfoundland, Canada. #botany #plant
Photo of a roundleaf sundew leaf at dusk. The leaf is green and is covered in tiny red hairs. Each hair has a drop of sticky liquid at the tip. The background of the photo is dark.
January 6, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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Cladonia #lichen. NWT, Canada. The structure (top of a podetium) in the photo is about 1.5cm wide)
#fungi #fungifriends
Photo that looks down at the top (roundish, shallow cup) of a Cladonia podetium. The cup is grey-green in colour and ringed with a couple of dozen or so bright red apothecia (structures that produce spores).
January 6, 2026 at 10:54 AM
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The winner of the world’s fanciest poop prize goes to…

(a fruiting/reproducing slime mold has completely covered this snowshoe hare poop. NWT, Canada)
#myxo #fungifriends #slimemold
Photo of a small, round sphere (snowshoe hare poop) is covered in a yellow slime mold comprised of hundreds of tiny round sporangia. The hare poop is sitting on a dead, brown leaf.
January 6, 2026 at 10:36 AM
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Poilieve would hand Trump the keys.
funtomvids.bsky.social Fun Tom @funtomvids.bsky.social · 1d
🔴 I'll say it till I'm blue in the face: the mental underling, Poilievre, is severely UNFIT to be Prime Minister of a great country such as Canada. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Fortunately, Canadian voters know it too.
January 5, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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A cluster of Lichenomphalia umbellifera mushrooms. Very few mushroom-producing fungi are lichenized, but this species (the whole genus) is. NWT, Canada. #fungi #lichen #mushroom #fungifriends
Photo of a cluster of yellow mushrooms with dark brown ridges on the caps.
January 5, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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Amanita and blueberries. Photo from a summer hike. #Newfoundland, Canada.
#mushroom #fungi #fungifriends #hiking #berries
Photo of a toadstool-type mushroom (Amanita sp) with a yellow-gold cap and very pale yellow stem. The cap has white spots. Around the mushroom is green grass and lowbush blueberry bushes with berries.
January 5, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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Cladonia #lichen. NWT, Canada.
#fungi #fungifriends
Photo of several light brown Cladonia podetia. The edges of the discs at the top of the podetia are ringed with small dark brown bead-like structures - the apothecia.
January 5, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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Cladonia #lichen. #Newoundland, Canada. Picture covers about 3 to 4cm left to right. #fungi #fungifriends While #hiking
Photo of 6 grey-coloured Cladonia lichen podetia. Each podetium includes a short stalk plus a cup-like structure at the top. The cup part of each podetium is ringed by spherical, bright red apothecia (spore-producing structures)
January 5, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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Cladonia #lichen. The picture covers about 1.5cm left to right. NWT Canada.
#fungi #fungifriends
Photo of the top of a Cladonia lichen podetium. The top of the squarish podetium is green with brown apothecia around the edges. Many tiny, worm-like podetia are growing upward from this podetium.
January 5, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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Earth Star Fungus. NWT, Canada. Photo of the fungus in situ is in the comments.
#fungi #fungifriends #mushroom
Photo of a hand holding a tiny fungus comprised of a small sphere on a star shaped base. The fungus is cream coloured.
January 4, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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Coastal #hike, East Coast Trail, #Newfoundland, Canada. Photo from September, when the ferns develop these beautiful colours. #trail #backpacking
Photo of a coastal landscape with a rocky outcrop, low shrubs, and brightly coloured ferns - yellow, green, orange.
January 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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To Mothership: We were wrong. Very wrong. Turn back now!

Ochrolechia frigida #lichen
Approximately 1cm high
#Newfoundland, Canada
#fungi #fungifriends
Close up photo of the orange apothecium of an Ochrolechia lichen. The apothecium looks kind of like a tiny satellite dish.
January 4, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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This lichen is not lichen getting its photo taken.

Maritime Sunburst Lichen, Xanthoria parietina. On seaside rocks at Newfoundland, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends #newfoundland
Photo of a roundish, yellow lichen growing flat on grey, seaside cliff rock. The pattern of holes in the lichen (holes look like two eyes and a mouth) give it the appearance of a face that looks angry.
January 4, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Reposted by Jeff, Stopping by Woods
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🇨🇦 Down with Pierre Poilievre 👎
mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 2d
Local man defeated in two elections in one day says unwanted leaders should be forcefully deposed.
January 4, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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Coastal #hiking, Conception Bay North, #Newfoundland, Canada. #hike #trail #backpacking
Photo of seaside cliffs with ocean to the left. A spruce tree clings to the side of the cliff, roots exposed.
January 3, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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Cladonia #lichen. Northwest Territories, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends
Photo of a grey Cladonia podetium. The cup of the podetium is ringed with small, red apothecia. The main cup of the podetium has two small podetia growing from it.
January 3, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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#Lichen Rhizoplaca subdisrepens. NWT, Canada. The lichen is about 4cm left to right. #fungi #fungifriends
Photo of a white lichen growing flat on pink rock. The lichen has a brain-like appearance.
January 3, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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Sphagnum #moss sporophyte/spore capsule. The sporophyte is about 2cm long. Northwest Territories, Canada.
#bryophyte #fungifriends
A sporophyte is growing from the tip of a Sphagnum moss plant. The sporophyte has a long, curvy, white stalk…with a matchstick-like black capsule at the end. The background of the photo is green.
January 3, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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Amanita mascaria. NWT, Canada.
#mushroom #fungi #fungifriends
Photo of a large red mushroom with a white stem and white spots on the cap. A second, smaller mushroom of the same species is to the right. These are the famous toadstool mushrooms of many story books.
January 2, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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Lichens (Xanthoria, Physcia and others) on a graffiti paint chip. On lakeside cliffs, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends #graffiti
Photo of an old, red paint chip partially peeled off cliff rock. The paint chip and surrounding rock in nearly covered in several species of lichens growing in a clump. Lichens are orange, yellow, white and several shades of grey in colour.
January 2, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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Looks about right
Depiction of a white ship, decorated in gold, with the name “USS Bone Spurs” on the side of the ship, also in gold.
January 1, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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Another brainy Orange Rock Posy (Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca) #lichen.
Northwest Territories, Canada.
#fungi #fungifriends
Photo of a cream coloured lichen growing flat on grey (mostly crustose lichen) rock. The left part of the lichen has a large brain-like growth.
January 1, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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The nickname for the Island of #Newfoundland (Canada) is The Rock. We come by that name honestly. Photo of a wilderness area on the Bay de Verde Peninsula, NL.
#hiking #trail #geology
Landscape photo showing a land covered in boulders…with a few small trees (evergreens plus larch) and shrubs growing here and there.
December 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Reposted by Jeff, Stopping by Woods
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Well I have to recover now, am done on Bluesky for today.
#Ukraine #war
theukrainianreview.bsky.social The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 26d
💔 A European Parliament interpreter could not hold back tears during the speech of 11-year-old Roman Oleksiv from Lviv.

The boy survived a missile strike on Vinnytsia on July 14, 2022, which killed his mother - it was the last time he saw her alive.
December 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM