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Sparky Harlan (she/her)
@sparkyharlan.bsky.social
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Worked 40 years as CEO of nonprofit housing 1000 homeless youth and families a night in Silicon Valley. #justice #LGBTQ #housing #homelessness. Live in Santa Cruz Mountains in CA. Grew up near Yosemite. #hiking #gardening #photography #fungi 🍄
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Sparky Harlan (she/her) @sparkyharlan.bsky.social · Jul 28
A bit of blue sky appears as storm clouds loom over the dawn skies. #BlueSkyMonday #sunrise #landscape #landscapephotography #photography
Storm clouds of dark gray with streaks and spots of orange. Some light blue sky between dark clouds and mountains in shadow.
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Morning shadows over the southern Utah mountains. #RockinTuesday #landscape #Utah #hiking #photography
Flat red top mountains with deep shadows.
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Love it.
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My gosh, they are so damned cute! Can I say that about a bird?! I hope so because they are. This fancy and beautiful little juvenile yellow crowned night heron was living its best life in our local #wildlife refuge. #photography #birds #wildlifephotography #herons #birdphotography
November 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Almost no white warts on this red top Amanita Muscaria. My friends dragged me out to collect edible mushrooms but I just like to take photos of the poisonous ones. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #hiking #nature #photography
Red top white stem mushroom (common name, fly agaric) growing in leaf duff and grass.
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Rotting, soggy mushroom turns green after the rains. #greenSat #fungifriends #fungi #nature #fall #photography
Green top old soggy mushroom surrounded by redwood leaves and yellow leaf.
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Sorrel leaf and fairy inkcaps (Coprinellus disseminatus). My neighbor came outside to make sure I wasn’t having a medical emergency lying on the ground. Nope, just taking pictures. #FungiFriday 🍄 #mycology #fungi #nature #Photography
One green sorrel leaf and colony of fairy inkcaps that do not ooze black inky substance like the other ink caps.
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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My hikes are ending in the dark these days as I stop to photograph all the new Angel Wings (Pleurocybella porrigens). #FungiFriday #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology #NaturePhotography #giking #photography
Twisting Angel Wing mushrooms reaching for the sun shining through the redwood trees. Growing on a mossy log with gills showing. Pleurocybella porrigens growing on log in a creek. Creek behind with the Fall Creek Trail in the background.
November 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Today’s new mushroom before the top was chewed up. #YellowThu #FungiFriends
#Fungi
Brown topped mushroom with yellow sponge bottom. On log with redwood leaves and moss.
November 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Is it really #YellowThu for #TheColoroftheDay? Banana slug was eating its way over a fungi field during yesterday’s rainy day. #fungifriends #fungi #photography #eastcoastkin
Yellow banana slug on rain soaked fungi covering a log.
November 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Angel's wings fungi showing off. #fungifriends #fungi #bloomscrolling #photography
White curly shaped mushrooms growing on mossy log.trees in background
November 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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California morning where the palm tree joins up with the redwoods for a #BlueSkyMonday #photography
Palm tree silhouette in front of light orange billowing cloud. Mist in the redwood trees in background.
November 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Love it!
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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We’re back! Rainy season has started and fungi is exploding. #fungifriends #Fungi #MushroomMonday #photography
Fungi on log.
November 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Spot light in the Icelandic Highlands…
Shot from a Cessna plane.

#photography #landscape #nature #art
November 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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There’s hiking and then there’s “hiking” with my group. After ten days of exploring I was done. #Utah #landscape #hiking ##photography
Goblin Valley State Park in Utah. Hiking group seen scrambling up redrock gully to notch at top to see a cave.
November 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Back home in Santa Cruz Mountains hiking the redwood trails on a warm, sunny day. #Stunday #hiking #landscape #photography
Ridge Trail in Fall Creek State Park winds its way gradually uphill through redwood trees.
November 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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“Toto, we are not in Utah anymore.” California’s Mecca
Hills Wilderness looking to the Saltón Sea. Two seriously dead areas for hiking. #desert #landscape #wilderness #hiking #wilderness.
Just a lonely trail in black gray dirt, rocks, and sand leading to mountains and canyons. The Saltón Sea is in the background.
November 2, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Looking up to the sky through the branches of an old cottonwood tree. #trees #landscape #blackandwhite #monochrome #photography
A cottonwood’s thick branches with grooved bark reaches overhead to sky. Although in black and white the leaves have turn gold orange in the fall.
November 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Found a lone evening primrose blooming and showing off fall colors in late October in Capitol Reef. #bloomscrolling #wildflowers #fall #landscape #photography
Yellow primrose bloom with turning orange yellow leaves in bed of dry grass against red dirt of Southern Utah.
October 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Who doesn't love hiking uphill through the mud and rocks? Spring Canyon Trail, Capitol Reef. #hiking #landscape ##photography
Me climbing over a rocky stretch of the trail. Lower trail in background is new trail through red mudslide. Below is Spring Canyon.
October 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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A positive about leaving so early for a hike is I get to watch another Utah desert #sunrise. #landscape #photography
Orange streaked sky with trees and mountains.
October 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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I am going to miss waking up to these beautiful dessert sunrises. #landscape #dessert #utah #sunrise #photography
Orange sun peaking out over the dessert with trees silhouetted in forefront. Clouds streak the sky.
October 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Cottonwoods in the dessert for #thicktrunkTuesday #landscape #photography
Large multi-trunk cottonwoods in sand with blue sky. Goblin Valley.
October 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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At home in Torrey, Utah. #monochrome #photography #landscape
Old weathered home on grassland with a few clouds overhead.
October 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Waking up to this view. Time for a hike. #sunrise #landscape #photography
Orange clouds over red mesa.
October 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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#Stunday is standing on top of Cassidy Arch to pose for a photo. #hiking #photography
Me, standing on top of a giant Arch with my arms stretched out. Cassidy Arch in Capitol Reef.
October 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM