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what the fungus that? idiosyncratic effects, 1995 "witches butter" (2008) what's gotten into you? from my brother (looks like a worm's eye view to me!
who is that gaucho amigo? (cauliflower mushroom) For $67 a month I learned how to get along (Madison County, NC, 1995) a mushroom by my own hair (March '05) Mormon Temple of Santa Monica, Christmas 2002 after gleaning, the cleaning
now how will I get down? Northern Tooth fungus-hunting, dress is casual (1999) beaten to the munch they don't call it the elegant polypore for nothing To enter the kingdom of mushrooms... (Sovah Woydak, 2007, by Kent Priestley)
chiropractor's delight (Berkeley's polypore, 2000) the early bird gets the bolete Sovah Woydak with honey mushroom, 2007, by Kent Priestley Rock on (by Larry Pogreba, guitar maker, Lyons, CO, 2005) little did she know she was holding Amanita vaginata (c. 1999)
reishi for sale mushroom playing cards (by Heritage) sniffin death angels II girls just wanna have fungus (5/08) Sparrasis on the brain
I knew there was a mushroom under there! (6/08) two puff daddys are better NY, 2008 up close and personal better whacked than sacked (2002)
gathering elderberry, cliffside (9/07) chestnut grub collection system, 2008 cat liver tonight! (peeling prickly pear, 11/08) time to cut the grass (wild onions, 2006) good apprentice (gleaning mulberries, 2006)
Lord, I was born a bramblin' man (California, 1992) you gobo (digging burdock, 12/08) shopping cart (elderberry, sumac, wild grape, and autumnberry, Nantucket, 10/08) you don't wanna see my hand where my hip be at (gathering red sumac, 2/09) look at that escargot
never too late to pick mushrooms (NY, 10/08) shaggy manes, October 2008 if it's big, gather it (Bizarre Foods, 2008) if it's free, eat it (Bizarre Foods, 2008) out of the firewood and into the frying pan (beetle grubs, Fall 2005)
Right from under my nose (4/08) first time skinning- DIY, 1995 blueberries, Shining Rock Wilderness, August 2009 Schizophrenic violet (Natalie, 5/09) Why'd the forager cross the road? (Gainesville, April '09)
NOW WHAT?? (gathering chaga, April 09) prone to stinkiness (gingko nuts, Nashville, 2006) first puff sweeter than honey (Firefly Gathering 2009) now hold still
seemed like a good idea at the time earthworm at arm's length (NY, September 09) green woman (Cate in the ivy, 2009) smooth sailing (Lactarius corrugis, August 2009) I'm-a-not-gonna-ita <em>Amanita</em>
doggone jack-o-lanterns (poisonous), 9/09 elderberry pie, 9/09 lobster madonna I nothing could be finer (with Tatiana and Sovah Woydak, 2007, by Kent Priestley) lobster madonna II
dead ringer (9/09) best thing since sliced bread "Under a toadstool crept a wee elf..." (2006) wee elf II, September '09 supersize me
Lucy in the sky hoppin' fresh warts and all won't you meet me in the country? (Oct 09), by Alisa Whelan Fungzilla (Asheville Fungus Fair 2006)
OK, just one (Oct 09), by Alisa Whelan my purse-ona, throwin down tea on the horizon (burdock, 11-09) drawing with shaggy mane ink, October 09 testing the nettles, October 09
sweet dreams (2007) Alysha & mullein, Nov 09 always cook mushrooms first (shirt by Calvin Klein) gathering sumac, Nov 09 slimy politician (dog barf fungus, 2009)
by a schoolyard sandbox; teacher asks, "how do I explain THIS??" fixin' prickly pear ice cream, Nov 09 sorting ants, 2005 prickly pear ice cream, ready to freeze (Nov 09) singing in the rainforest
I've got you under my skin (Jes & roadkill, 12-09) high morel standards (Spring 2010) cute as a bug by Alissa Whelan, 2010 feeling blue
Lulu by Joanne Chan, May 2010 why there are no old, bold mycologists hoodrat stuff with my friends (R.K.S., 2009) reishi, July 2010 stop and smell the fungus
frost's bolete by John Fletcher TITLE getting antsy elderberry, August 2010 good help is hard to find
drink up nose candy (puffball-in-aspic) brush up on this the worth of passions pledged Vitamin D-saddle
wish you were here reishi contemplation see food diet (lobster mushrooms, 2010) good apprentice (Natalie, 2010) fungal romance
stinkhorn horrow show berry nice, August 2010 this is your brain on mushrooms (Brian, 2010) polyporazzi quilt cap and John Stehling
homey with my gnomey (2010) another late night at the office "Is this a mushroom?" "No," I replied, "it's a moldy turd." give them a mile... (by Kevin Gregory) they won't miss a few persimmons (Brandy, September 2010)
holy shiitake! not by bread alone little shopaholic (oats, 2010) Michelle with honey locust, 2010 milkweed pods, mid September
"truth... must be found... in the smile... under the dead leaf... in the fullness of love." Krishnamurti Miller time ain't no mountain high enough you're in my persimmonal space and I ain't sharin
what you won't do for mushrooms Princess Ling Chi enchantment nature's recycling system whatcha gonna do wit all dat funk
sittin' pretty newt kid in town Kristen, 2010 off the beaten path go ask Alice
she put the chaga on my tongue prayer conditioned into the mouths of babes every dogwood has her day robbing the cradle
ca-ching tastes like chicken (True Nature Country Fair, 2010) hand to mouth (after the walnut harvest) teaching fungal family values incontrovertible
not by bolete alone Colonel Sanders, played by Neil DeGroot, Director of The Biggest Loser (costume by chicken of the woods) manes on the wane pretty in ink "Existence is pure playfulness." Osho
smell the love (dog stinkhorn, 2010) maybe luck is a lady (BJ, Dec 2010) Lyza, by Anne Pärtna fly agaric, by Anne Pärtna "If one has a friend, what need has she of medicine?" (Bhartrihari), by Anne Pärtna