Explorations in lichenology, art, and social change

Homemade brushes made with wild turkey feathers that i docs in my yard, their shafts, and a twig from a forsynthia shrub ♡ #diypaintbrushes #paintbrushes

I'm hoping this lil box becomes a big hit for my garden #voles... #DIY box, basic design shared by #EliotColeman in one of his many amazing organic gardening / farming books ♡

Happy New Moon in Virgo ♡ Hoping everybody is getting a moment to light their sacred fire inside themselves, that fire that nourishes us so deeply that the roots of the collective consciosness feels it, hums with it, the katydids rattling into a mighty roar! #newmooninvirgo

Highly recommended! It took me a few months to pull it from the shelves, cause I'd misunderstood the title. I'd thought it was yet another book on climate change and what we can do about it (in superficial ways) - but I should have remembered that the author Dougald Hine is the co-founder of Dark Mountain Project and that of course he'd be prying beneath the structures of domination down to the foundations of our stories. I was challenged by it in parts, but ultimately in very good ways... Highly recommended! #ecolit #darkmountainproject #climatechange #modernity #hospicingmodernity

Breaking through #2 #oilpainting #ecocontemplativeart

Just finished making this carrying case for painting in the field! Forest beings, I'm on my way! #woodworking #whiteoak #pleinairpainting #oilpainting #whiteoak #homemilledlumber

8 foot tall Tiger Lillies? Yes indeed! Cold Mountain is a blooming - and not just the flowers! Check out that big smile! I love being out with this guy ♡ #lilliumsuperbum #turkscaplily #coldmountain #southernappalachians

Looking at lichens feels a little bit like jumping down the rabbithole as Alice... a wonderland indeed! Heres the prompt... Imagine you are 10 um tall, what might it feel like to walk the landscape of a Lecidea tesselata thallus? This is what i imagine it to be... the cracks between the areoles would be like slot canyons, the upper cortex would be like the petrified sand dunes and slick rock of the Colorado Plateau in Utah, and the algae would be like those hanging gardens found in the canyons... And after youre done imagining, then zoom back out and find yourself wherever you are, at the top of one of the tallest mountains in the eastern US, or a sunny rock outcrop somewhere... and maybe ponder about tech shrinkimg us humans rather than sending us to live in outer space... #lichenart #lichens #southernappalachians #imagination #ecocontemplativeart #watercolor

The beautiful and labyrinthoid Lecidea tesselata... probably a sensu latu bevause I don't know the state of Lecidea taxonomy in the Southern Appalachians, but who here is keeping track?! #lichens