Hello all I would like to submit this work into the contest. The Ash Mirage is a beast of a card with very fast speed and the Reflection Shield ability which helps in Blast Damage rulesets and in countering

The fall is here in New England. We had some rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ian and the first frost hasn't appeared yet for eastern Massachusetts. I finally had a little luck with finding some fungi

Over the weekend I found this small jumping spider crawling along a deciduous forest floor. It was flashing its front legs up and down like arms. It was some sort of display. A mating ritual? Another spider

Some insects from a failed mushroom foray this weekend: an Assassin Bug, a mystery bee and fly, and a fancy beetle

Finding a bolete with a strange symbiotic relationship!

Here I present a wintertime frugivore that was on my target list for a long time: The Pine Grosbeak

This week's #FeatheredFriends contest is to show a bird that you identified. I dug through my photos to try to find a bird that stumped me for a while and gave me a hard time trying to figure out what

My contribution to FungiFriday by ewkaw Happy #FungiFriday, we made it through another week. Today I am presenting this beautiful Dyer's Polypore (Phaeolus schweinitzii) which I found last fall. This polypore

Some new species and familiar faces on a short afternoon walk.

It was a blustery day this morning which wasn't conducive to macrophotography. The flower heads were blowing and twisting all over the place and I had to time my shots between gusts. I managed to get a

I liked this photo I took of the freshwater marsh I visited last weekend. Dragonflies, frogs, egrets, herons, geese, muskrats, red-winged blackbirds...the gang's all here.

Quick stop by a local rain garden to look for insects!

A small ode to a strange and spectacular plant.

A short review of a local Weevil Wasp in my area and the family in general.

No much mushroom activity but I did find some shelf fungi!

Sunday safari looking for bugs!

Tiger Beetles test my patience (and dexterity).

Some insects from today: mostly wasps!

Mountain hike in drought still produces some shrooms on the slopes.

A surprise visitor in our umbrella...