Ian
@ianchanges.bsky.social
looking for a job, mushrooms, old stonework
my first time seeing a venomous eastern copperhead — it was coiled and not moving at all and definitely not a mushroom. spotted in the mohonk preserve a week ago. #🐍
August 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
my first time seeing a venomous eastern copperhead — it was coiled and not moving at all and definitely not a mushroom. spotted in the mohonk preserve a week ago. #🐍
a nice pair of lactifluus or lactarius of some kind. I’m still searching for a positive ID. any ideas? I think maybe L. piperatus or L. vellereus. Do you know these July-emerging #🍄 in a deciduous New York forest that ooze a whitish liquid from broken gills ?
August 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
a nice pair of lactifluus or lactarius of some kind. I’m still searching for a positive ID. any ideas? I think maybe L. piperatus or L. vellereus. Do you know these July-emerging #🍄 in a deciduous New York forest that ooze a whitish liquid from broken gills ?
saw @blackforager.bsky.social making a fab looking pate with a black-staining polypore right after seeing this GIANT specimen at the base of a big old oak tree. this was another new-to-me sighting this season. shaping up to be a wet and bountiful mushroom summer in the Hudson Valley #🍄
July 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
saw @blackforager.bsky.social making a fab looking pate with a black-staining polypore right after seeing this GIANT specimen at the base of a big old oak tree. this was another new-to-me sighting this season. shaping up to be a wet and bountiful mushroom summer in the Hudson Valley #🍄
in other #🍄 finds recently, this singular long-stalked gray cup was a new mushroom for me - a thin stipe and a cap shaped like a bowl with an irregular rim
July 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
in other #🍄 finds recently, this singular long-stalked gray cup was a new mushroom for me - a thin stipe and a cap shaped like a bowl with an irregular rim
a friend asked about a favorite mushroom & my first thought was these red chanterelles, which fruit gregariously, are so smol & brilliantly carmine, a sign of summer starting to appear in july, and pack a kind of white peppery perfume on top of the typical stewed apricot chanterelle smell #🍄
July 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
a friend asked about a favorite mushroom & my first thought was these red chanterelles, which fruit gregariously, are so smol & brilliantly carmine, a sign of summer starting to appear in july, and pack a kind of white peppery perfume on top of the typical stewed apricot chanterelle smell #🍄
June 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
this is what it’s like to try to take a walk with me (ty for the 📸 @alextestere.bsky.social)
June 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
this is what it’s like to try to take a walk with me (ty for the 📸 @alextestere.bsky.social)
June 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
two years ago a stranger on @inaturalist.bsky.social told me that most North American coral fungi — like this beauty — are undescribed to science most info about the genus comes from european specimens & DNA typing reveals many in North America to be discrete, novel species #🍄 #fungi #mycology #🧬
June 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
two years ago a stranger on @inaturalist.bsky.social told me that most North American coral fungi — like this beauty — are undescribed to science most info about the genus comes from european specimens & DNA typing reveals many in North America to be discrete, novel species #🍄 #fungi #mycology #🧬
a gregarious little cluster of collared parachutes / marasmius rotula #🍄 #fungi #mushrooms #mycology
June 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
a gregarious little cluster of collared parachutes / marasmius rotula #🍄 #fungi #mushrooms #mycology
nicely fanned out hemlock varnish shelf / ganoderma tsugae. i know this guy is a relative of what’s called reishi or lingzhi & I’ve often wondered about whether this has used similar to other ganoderma species if anyone has places to point me or info to share #🍄 #fungi #reishi
June 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
me & some kind of solo bolete
June 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
me & some kind of solo bolete
June 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Another great #🍄 book is Michael Hathaway’s ‘What a Mushroom Lives For’ about mushroom picking transforming lives and economies in the Himalayas. It's great to read alongside Anna Tsing’s ‘The Mushroom at the End of the World’ which is similar and focused on the Pacific Northwest. #booksky 📚💙
May 31, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This is my favorite book about mushrooms, and really just one of the best books I’ve ever read. Anna Tsing’s ethnography of matsutake foragers extends so far beyond that subject. It took me weeks to read the first time, but because I really had to sit with what each section revealed. #booksky 📚💙 #🍄
May 31, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Among my favorite books of the past few years — Daisy Hildyard’s ‘The Second Body’ from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social is a lyric essay that threads together ecology, economics, human connection, nonhuman interactions. I think about it often. I return to it a lot. #booksky 📚💙
May 31, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Among my favorite books of the past few years — Daisy Hildyard’s ‘The Second Body’ from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social is a lyric essay that threads together ecology, economics, human connection, nonhuman interactions. I think about it often. I return to it a lot. #booksky 📚💙
happy friday from me, a fun gay guy who lives in the woods
May 30, 2025 at 11:50 PM
happy friday from me, a fun gay guy who lives in the woods
And another view looking down at the caps.
May 13, 2025 at 11:59 AM
And another view looking down at the caps.
Despite almost a foot of rain last week, it’s still pretty quiet out there… these were so small I thought they were a slime mold. But no, gills underneath. I’m not sure what they are… possibly juvenile oyster mushrooms? This was in Ulster county, New York & I welcome guesses ! #🍄
May 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Despite almost a foot of rain last week, it’s still pretty quiet out there… these were so small I thought they were a slime mold. But no, gills underneath. I’m not sure what they are… possibly juvenile oyster mushrooms? This was in Ulster county, New York & I welcome guesses ! #🍄
Doing 35mm film lately, too, which I‘ll share here because I miss that & don’t like that other place much anymore. I don’t know what this blushing, umbonate-capped shroom and its tinier pal are. I see #🍄 folks call them LBMs (little brown mushrooms). I’m glad we have this newer emoji for them too #🍄🟫
May 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Doing 35mm film lately, too, which I‘ll share here because I miss that & don’t like that other place much anymore. I don’t know what this blushing, umbonate-capped shroom and its tinier pal are. I see #🍄 folks call them LBMs (little brown mushrooms). I’m glad we have this newer emoji for them too #🍄🟫
Another thing I love? Dry-laid stonework (aka dry stone walling). This means masonry constructed without mortar—just stone, friction, and gravity, baby ! Here I am leaning on what’s called a cheek, where a wall ends. I dismantled and rebuilt this one in 7.5 hours as part of a timed practice test. #⚒️
May 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Another thing I love? Dry-laid stonework (aka dry stone walling). This means masonry constructed without mortar—just stone, friction, and gravity, baby ! Here I am leaning on what’s called a cheek, where a wall ends. I dismantled and rebuilt this one in 7.5 hours as part of a timed practice test. #⚒️