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  1. Step 8-1/2 A month later toddler and I actually found time to experiment a bit with the ink.

    We (tbh, this has not been a fully 50/50 partnership..) unfortunately didn't have a fountain pen to play with so made stamps.

    One from mushrooms, one from an #oak #gall and one birch leaf. We also used a pencil.

    Results are interesting. With some fine tuning we got a VERY black, black. I suspect it might be extremely corrosive to the paper. We'll see. Looks super pretty and stains well.

    #InkMaking

  2. In summer when I was looking for galls to photograph for National Gall Week, I suspected that many were high above in the trees. Come autumn some of the leafy sort began drifting to ground...the first I noticed literally fell into my lap as I was sitting for a coffee break while woodcutting! That one is yet to come, this one came along the next day (mid October). Possibly Poplar Gall Mite Phyllocoptes populi, on a leaf of Populus balsamifera Balsam
    Poplar
    #Alberta #insects #Gall #Mite #nature

  3. In summer when I was looking for galls to photograph for National Gall Week, I suspected that many were high above in the trees. Come autumn some of the leafy sort began drifting to ground...the first I noticed literally fell into my lap as I was sitting for a coffee break while woodcutting! That one is yet to come, this one came along the next day (mid October). Possibly Poplar Gall Mite Phyllocoptes populi, on a leaf of Populus balsamifera Balsam
    Poplar
    #Alberta #insects #Gall #Mite #nature

  4. In summer when I was looking for galls to photograph for National Gall Week, I suspected that many were high above in the trees. Come autumn some of the leafy sort began drifting to ground...the first I noticed literally fell into my lap as I was sitting for a coffee break while woodcutting! That one is yet to come, this one came along the next day (mid October). Possibly Poplar Gall Mite Phyllocoptes populi, on a leaf of Populus balsamifera Balsam
    Poplar
    #Alberta #insects #Gall #Mite #nature

  5. In summer when I was looking for galls to photograph for National Gall Week, I suspected that many were high above in the trees. Come autumn some of the leafy sort began drifting to ground...the first I noticed literally fell into my lap as I was sitting for a coffee break while woodcutting! That one is yet to come, this one came along the next day (mid October). Possibly Poplar Gall Mite Phyllocoptes populi, on a leaf of Populus balsamifera Balsam
    Poplar
    #Alberta #insects #Gall #Mite #nature

  6. In summer when I was looking for galls to photograph for National Gall Week, I suspected that many were high above in the trees. Come autumn some of the leafy sort began drifting to ground...the first I noticed literally fell into my lap as I was sitting for a coffee break while woodcutting! That one is yet to come, this one came along the next day (mid October). Possibly Poplar Gall Mite Phyllocoptes populi, on a leaf of Populus balsamifera Balsam
    Poplar
    #Alberta #insects #Gall #Mite #nature

  7. This time of year is so interesting for interesting people interested in interesting things. Saw so much
    #fungi today, and here are three of the best, plus a really interesting gall

    1) Upright Coral fungus
    2) Candlesnuff fungus
    3) Snowy waxcap
    4) Common spangle gall wasp's gall

    #mycology #mushroom #nature #wildlife #coral #waxcap #gall #wasp #oak #autumn #walking #outdoors #alttext