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It was a little dry when I found it so I didn’t try a spore print. I chopped up some gills and water and got a picture of spores. I measured one spore at about 5 µm long by 3 µm wide. It doesn’t show very well in the picture, but I think there’s a pore on the spore, or some tiny knob.

Located in sandy area with pines, growing gregariously; caps up to 4cm, convex, finely hairy, purplish/tan; gills attached, nearly distant, dark purple; stems up to 6cm, enlarged base, scurfy, color like the cap; purplish basal mycelium; flesh pale purplish; spore print white.
See https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/140793477 for gill images and rosecomb malformation.

aka blue-pored polypore - found under hemlocks and boy was it ever...tons of them dotting the mossy side of the trail mixed in with boletes and other little mushrooms. A lovely blue-gray color. Less than 1 inch high - one of the biggest in the group. OM 90mm at f8 or so

Every time I walk down to the Co-op, I walk by this large patch of old rugosa roses. I always circle it slowly a could times, checking out the bees. Today it paid off.

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There were four on the evening of 3/9, but the other three were tucked into some shadows so I didn’t photograph them. In recent weeks, people have seen as many as eight spoonbills at this location in recent weeks. I saw at least two each day for 10 days. I would walk by around sunrise and not see them, but they would be out later in the day.

Looked through lots of Bee Balm and some other flowers in this native planted Poor Farm cemetery. Plants in lower and shady areas are still blooming during a drought. Took at least one picture and counted number of bumblebees for each bee+flower species combination. Red -belted Queen is just a guess. It was a bigger and brighter bumblebee, very noticeable. But the band between the winds looks more like a Yellow bumblebee but there are just two stripes...so I included lots of pictures.