12 October 2026 (spruce needle rain)

spruce needle rain

the mossy understory

of a mushroom

11 June 2026 (slug weather)

slug weather

a hole chewed through

an amanita’s cap

21 October 2025 (open carry)

open carry

a basket full

of boletes

20 May 2024 (a mushroom growing)

a mushroom growing

from a single spruce needle

island mist

Marasmius mushroom, Cathedral Woods, Monhegan Island, Maine

13 February 2022 (bioluminescence)

Luminescent panellus fungus

26 June 2021 (choices)

choices

along the path

amanita

13 September 2020 (mushrooms)

tiny mushrooms

sprout from deer droppings

apple harvest

6 September 2020 (mushroom)

mountain path

we overlook

a destroying angel

24 September 2019 (mushrooms)

trailside

pair of white mushrooms

it’s not about me

October 4: Mushrooms among us

I've been out sick for a few days--hence the brief absence here--but this morning was up for a mushroom outing at Fernalds Neck Preserve in Lincolnville, led by the very entertaining and knowledgeable Kirk Gentalen of Maine Coast Heritage Trust. I learned a little about mushrooms and other fungi, but what I seem to have retained has more to do with poetry, I think, than biology. Like learning names that are stories in themselves... Witches' Butter, Bear's Bread, Crowded Parchment...

Learning mushrooms--
Velvet Earth Tongue speaks
from the forest floor.

October 18: Storm passing

Was walking in the wet woods this morning just as the rain clouds were lifting away and the last drops shaken loose from the branches shone in the incipient sunlight.

Gold aspen leaves plastered
on the forest floor,
one wet, white mushroom.