My favorite PNW wildflower (https://w.wiki/DuF7) hanging out with my favorite PNW fern (https://w.wiki/AyZQ) 
As always when I can't decide between different crops and/or angles of the same subject(s), you get all of them 
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No idea what these were, but they were cute and tiny (and extremely difficult to photograph up close with my Galaxy S23) 
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I was trying to capture an image of the fungal fruiting body inside the hollow there, but it appears to me now that what I really captured was a skull-like face in the tree 
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*Oplopanax horridus* ([Devil's club](https://w.wiki/7fyF)) looking formidable in the Forest's understory.
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A few shots of Lilo poking around in a little creek 
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Letzte Woche fand das Canine Science Forum #csf in Hamburg statt, und ein Teil unseres #Vortragsteam der #mammaliaag hatte die großartige Gelegenheit, daran teilzunehmen! 
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Forschende aus aller Welt haben dort ihre neuesten Erkenntnisse rund um den besten Freund des Menschen präsentiert, wir durften viele spannende Einblicke gewinnen - etwa in das Sozialverhalten von Hunden, ihre besonderen kognitiven Fähigkeiten oder die Bindung zwischen Mensch und #Hund, und viele weitere faszinierende Themengebiete der modernen #kynologie
Wir nehmen jede Menge neuer Ideen daraus mit, und freuen uns darauf, eine Erkenntnisse auch in unsere eigene Arbeit fließen zu lassen 
*Prosartes smithii* ([Largeflower fairybells](https://w.wiki/EJbH)) is often a difficult subject to photograph because the flowers hang below this already low-lying (usually) plant. Have to get down on hands and knees to see the flowers well 
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I might have more photos of *C. scouleri* than *T. ovatum* this season 
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Oplopanax horridus looking fierce and glorious on a bright spring day 
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A little mushroom village in the hollow of a mossy stump right there on the trail—how could I resist?
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The fun bit about that top photo is that almost all the new, bright-green growth to see is just beneath the surface of the water 
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You might be thinking, "Another trillium?", but I think the fact that this is only the third trillium photo you're getting from me this season shows incredible restraint on my part 
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I just learned that one of the common names for [Lysichiton americanus](https://w.wiki/DwQe) is swamp lantern, and I'm never calling it that other thing again 
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Devil's club ([Oplopanax horridus](https://w.wiki/7fyF)) is not a plant to be trifled with 
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The Forest takes back one of its own 
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As far as I'm concerned, trillium ([T. ovatum](https://bit.ly/4ih0UmQ)) is the icon of spring in the Pacific Northwest 
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I don't know if this mushroom is jet black normally or if it blackens as it gets old—it didn't *feel* old: firm and dry to the touch—but it's very cool either way
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I completely missed this fallen branch with orange witch's butter ([Dacrymyces chrysospermus](https://w.wiki/BmRV)) the first time I ran by; fortunately, I took a wrong turn and had to double-back. The bright orange specks of witch's butter caught my eye on the second pass, and I was glad for the excuse to recover while I snapped some photos 
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The many orange tips of this ground lichen were impossible to miss as I climbed up the trail, as if the lichen was hoping to be noticed. I didn't want to let this organism down, and here we are 
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