the · affected · provincial’s · almanack

Found this Pyncoporus cinnabarinus in Bill's woodpile. Don't you just want to bite it? It's an inedible species, though. This specimen is quite large.

Bill's septic mound is strangely bucolic. Completely covered in moss and mushrooms.

I suppose it's a cinnabar chanterelle, but the color is quite golden.

A rather fitting species name for this bolete.

Finding these everywhere right now. Bill has them growing right next to his deck, the lucky devil.

Largest station of Monotropa uniflora I've ever found: hundreds of them. This wet season has apparently been very good to the fungus that allows these parasitic, chlorophyll-free plants to thrive.

Found a particularly enterprising spade-leafed sundew today that seems to specialize in catching and absorbing blue damselfiles. Thing was covered with them.

Freed this one, which was still alive, and washed the goo off his wings. He lived to make the exact same mistake later that day.

Try walking into a giant mass of sticky, ravenous poison ivy that slowly dissolves your body.

(Yes, I freed him.)

Color study.

Red Milkweed. Now very rare in the Pine Barrens. I know of only two plants.

Rose Pogonias

Swamp Candle

I had to stand in my kayak to get this photo. Very tricky. Do not try this in your bog: you will drown. At least if I drown, we don't lose a productive member of society--but some of you are librarians, so do be careful!

Magnificent scent, the native magnolias.

A colony of threadleafed sundews slowly sinking a floating cedar log.