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Hiker, backpacker, forager, fisher, gardener, fossil finder, iPhone nature pic taker, nature nerd. Retired. Back home in Newfoundland after many years away. 🇨🇦
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One of my favourite early-season #wildflowers, common bearberry. Pics from a few years ago at #Yellowknife, NWT, Canada.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

A large erratic on the barrens of the Bay de Verde Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada. I’m told that these cracks/breaks often happened as these rocks dropped from the bottom of melting glaciers, approx. 10,000 yrs ago. #hiking #backpacking.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

First time in Ottawa (yesterday), and happened by Prime Minister Carney as he left work for the day. A cool moment for this life-long politics nerd:)

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Today at Barrie, Ontario(visiting the area). Anyone know the species? You can save me looking it up:) #fungi #mushrooms

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

Near my home. #Moss loves #Newfoundland. #trail #hiking

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Before sunrise, on a wilderness #backpacking trip. Newfoundland, Canada. The North Atlantic about 15 miles in the distance. #hiking

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

Chicken Lips #Fungus at my hometown in #newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #mushroom Pic from a few years ago in August.

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

Cladonia sp #lichen. Yellowknife, NT, Canada.

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

A Rhizocarpon (?) #lichen. Yellowknife, NT, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

A winter view of the coastline near where I live #newfoundland. #trail #hiking.

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

An interesting #fossil at a newly-found #Ediacaran site. North end of the Bay de Verde Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

A whopper of a boulder on a wilderness #hike yesterday. #newfoundland, Canada.

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Lichen collage. Northwest Territories, Canada.

submitted 39 days ago • 8 comments

#Lichen, Rusavskia elegans. Northwest Territories, Canada. Pic from 2019. #fungi #fungifriends.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Spring cranberry (aka lingonberry, mountain cranberry) picking. Yellowknife, NT, Canada.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

#Lichen collage. Northwest Territories, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Splotches of Golden Moonglow #lichens. Yellowknife, NT, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Orange Rock Posy #lichen, Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca. Northwest Territories, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Aspidella from a new #Ediacaran #fossil site I happened on last week. #Newfoundland Canada.

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

We should all be centenarians here in Newfoundland.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

From a woods #hike today. Newfoundland, Canada.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Looking out at the North Atlantic from a small seaside cave. Newfoundland, Canada.

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

Lecanora epibryon #lichen. Northwest Territories, Canada. Love the colours and textures of this species. #fungi #fungifriends.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Arctic saucer #lichen. #Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

A day #hike to the barrens, last week. Bay de Verde Peninsula, #newfoundland, Canada.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Nice view from near the Little Horse Trailhead, Sedona, AZ, April 1, 2025. #hiking #nature #phonephoto

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Ochrolechia sp. #lichen, from a hike today @ Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

A gallon of lowbush blueberries, one of the most common (and delicious) of Newfoundland’s edible berries…and a big part of local food culture. Some mountain cranberries (aka lingonberry, aka partridgeberry in Newfoundland) are growing among the white Cladonia #lichen. #foraging

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Liverwort, Marchantia polymorpha. The happiest of the bryophytes. Northwest Territories, Canada. #bryophyte

submitted 50 days ago • 6 comments

Trail mix, Newfoundland-style. Three species of blueberry (lowbush, alpine and northern), crowberry and cloudberry (called bakeapple in NL). From July to freeze-up in December, there are dozens of delicious berry species to snack on while hiking/backpacking here. #hiking #backpackibg #foraging

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

The North Atlantic can get a little wild on times. At my hometown in Conception Bay North, #Newfoundland, Canada. Clip from a few winters ago after a storm locally known as “Snowmageddon”.

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments

Creeping Snowberry, a delicious minty berry that grows on tiny vines on mossy forest floors. #Newfoundland, Canada. #foraging

submitted 52 days ago • 4 comments

A secluded little wilderness brook (Church Path Brook) a few KM inland from my coastal hometown at Newfoundland, Canada. Most years not a single human would pass through this area. Photo from a few summers ago. #hiking #backpacking

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments