the Old Maiden 🌛🌝🌜
@theoldmaiden.bsky.social
Forest life, secret gardens, broken glass, things on fire, beautiful chaos, almost feral, mushr🍄🍄ms (not that kind), making something from nothing, witchcraft and occasional bitchcraft
I'm late but t's still Caturday 😻🖤
November 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I'm late but t's still Caturday 😻🖤
Mixed mushroom etouffee 🍄🦪🍤🍛
November 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Mixed mushroom etouffee 🍄🦪🍤🍛
🎃🖤 Happy Halloween 🖤🎃
Just making up some
🥀 dead bouquets 🥀
of native wildflowers for trick or treaters tonight so they can start pollinator meadows all over the neighborhood 🧙♀️💫
Just making up some
🥀 dead bouquets 🥀
of native wildflowers for trick or treaters tonight so they can start pollinator meadows all over the neighborhood 🧙♀️💫
October 31, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🎃🖤 Happy Halloween 🖤🎃
Just making up some
🥀 dead bouquets 🥀
of native wildflowers for trick or treaters tonight so they can start pollinator meadows all over the neighborhood 🧙♀️💫
Just making up some
🥀 dead bouquets 🥀
of native wildflowers for trick or treaters tonight so they can start pollinator meadows all over the neighborhood 🧙♀️💫
They're doing their thing with the tiniest bit of rain 🍄🌧️🦪🤩
October 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
They're doing their thing with the tiniest bit of rain 🍄🌧️🦪🤩
Leftover filling from green (COTW) and red (black bean) enchilada night
October 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Leftover filling from green (COTW) and red (black bean) enchilada night
Nothing that an adobo chicken of the woods mushroom quesadilla with feta and homemade green enchilada sauce on the steps in the sunshine couldn't fix 🤤🌞🌮
October 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Nothing that an adobo chicken of the woods mushroom quesadilla with feta and homemade green enchilada sauce on the steps in the sunshine couldn't fix 🤤🌞🌮
A meadow of naive calico & blue wood asters:
What drought? 💅💮💮💮
What drought? 💅💮💮💮
September 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A meadow of naive calico & blue wood asters:
What drought? 💅💮💮💮
What drought? 💅💮💮💮
Digging matsuake on a tiny forest island in a rainstorm hbu 🍄🌧️🥰🍃
September 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Digging matsuake on a tiny forest island in a rainstorm hbu 🍄🌧️🥰🍃
Good morning 💙
September 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Good morning 💙
Our little 3 sisters garden with the autumn woods in its full glory 🌻🍂🍁
September 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Our little 3 sisters garden with the autumn woods in its full glory 🌻🍂🍁
Hi... Is that you?? 🦋
September 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Hi... Is that you?? 🦋
Let me tell you about this show I've been watching 👀🦋 it's almost the season finale
September 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Let me tell you about this show I've been watching 👀🦋 it's almost the season finale
Good morning ☕🌻💕
September 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Good morning ☕🌻💕
Good morning from me and my first batch of wine cap mushroom spawn made from a locally sourced tissue sample 🙌🍄
It's moving outside into the beds today 🤞🍄
Also a selection of ever-rotating mold jars that go along with mycology that need to be dumped 🤓
It's moving outside into the beds today 🤞🍄
Also a selection of ever-rotating mold jars that go along with mycology that need to be dumped 🤓
September 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Good morning from me and my first batch of wine cap mushroom spawn made from a locally sourced tissue sample 🙌🍄
It's moving outside into the beds today 🤞🍄
Also a selection of ever-rotating mold jars that go along with mycology that need to be dumped 🤓
It's moving outside into the beds today 🤞🍄
Also a selection of ever-rotating mold jars that go along with mycology that need to be dumped 🤓
What *do* you do with one solitary wine cap that popped from my beds after our little deluge? I went with this - waste not want not 🤭🍄🍳
September 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
What *do* you do with one solitary wine cap that popped from my beds after our little deluge? I went with this - waste not want not 🤭🍄🍳
3rd fall for these oyster mushroom logs made from the first local specimen I ever cloned
As usual, right around the full moon 🌕
The fall fruiting is *trying* to start, but since the woods are bone dry and there are almost no other mushrooms, bugs will destroy these before they mature 🥲
As usual, right around the full moon 🌕
The fall fruiting is *trying* to start, but since the woods are bone dry and there are almost no other mushrooms, bugs will destroy these before they mature 🥲
September 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
3rd fall for these oyster mushroom logs made from the first local specimen I ever cloned
As usual, right around the full moon 🌕
The fall fruiting is *trying* to start, but since the woods are bone dry and there are almost no other mushrooms, bugs will destroy these before they mature 🥲
As usual, right around the full moon 🌕
The fall fruiting is *trying* to start, but since the woods are bone dry and there are almost no other mushrooms, bugs will destroy these before they mature 🥲
It's time ⌛🫐 🌞🙏
August 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
It's time ⌛🫐 🌞🙏
It's dog-days hot so ofc I batch cooked a pot of chili big enough for an army 🙃🥵 because I needed easy protein 🥣
This is a 21 qt. commercial pot and NO canned beans are allowed in this household so they were all soaked and pressure cooked earlier today 🫘
I figure this is just shy of 2 gallons 😝
This is a 21 qt. commercial pot and NO canned beans are allowed in this household so they were all soaked and pressure cooked earlier today 🫘
I figure this is just shy of 2 gallons 😝
August 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
It's dog-days hot so ofc I batch cooked a pot of chili big enough for an army 🙃🥵 because I needed easy protein 🥣
This is a 21 qt. commercial pot and NO canned beans are allowed in this household so they were all soaked and pressure cooked earlier today 🫘
I figure this is just shy of 2 gallons 😝
This is a 21 qt. commercial pot and NO canned beans are allowed in this household so they were all soaked and pressure cooked earlier today 🫘
I figure this is just shy of 2 gallons 😝
Full moon rising over the Atlantic 🌝🌊🌌
Aug. 9 Wells Beach, Maine
Aug. 9 Wells Beach, Maine
August 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Full moon rising over the Atlantic 🌝🌊🌌
Aug. 9 Wells Beach, Maine
Aug. 9 Wells Beach, Maine