Tiny orange mushroom growing out of a mossy tree stump. I love the beauty that forests make from moisture and decay 💚

Tiny plant with bell-shaped white flowers on white stalks, growing on leafy forest floor. This all-white plant, called an Indian pipe, does not produce chlorophyll. It appears all over the Adirondacks. I thought it was a fungus until I looked it up a few years ago. See the glowing light below one of the bell-shaped flowers on the lower left? 🤍

Tiny mushrooms growing from a mossy tree stump. There’s a teeny tiny bug perched on one of the larger orange mushrooms on the left 🍄‍🟫

Moss-covered tree stump dotted with tiny white mushrooms

Grateful for wild places. I just can’t get enough of these miniature worlds 💚

Trail to boathouse at Adirondack Experience Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, New York, USA.

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Pattern of dots and lines in the bark of a Golden Birch tree, Moss Lake, Adirondack Mountains, USA. Some kind of braille-morse code for trees?

Triskele formed by the cut end of a log at Moss Lake, Adirondack Mountains, USA, adorned by clusters of fungi

Lacy patterns in the bark of a Golden Birch tree, Moss Lake, Adirondack Mountains, USA

More whorled lines and dots in the bark of a Golden Birch tree, Moss Lake, Adirondack Mountains, USA

Messages in the trees.

Grateful for wild places.

Moss Lake, Adirondack Park, New York, USA.

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Close-up of emerald green fairy moss-carpet growing on a tree in the Adirondack Mountains, New York, USA 🧚

Moss- and fern-covered tree in the Adirondack Mountains, New York, USA 🧚

Mossy tree stump surrounded by ferns and forest, Adirondack Mountains, New York, USA 🧚

Mossy forest in the Adirondack Mountains, New York, USA 🧚

Grateful for wild places.

Moss Lake, Adirondack Park, New York, USA

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Wide trail through the woods with a hiker in the distance

Tiny orange mushroom growing from a mossy tree stump

Fungus growing on a tree on a wooded trail, with a mossy “ottoman” in the lower right. I’m tempted to take a seat.

Fungus growing on a tree on a wooded trail

Grateful for wild places.

Moss Lake, Adirondack Park, New York, USA

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Moss-covered ground and tree roots forming a tiny green cave where critters can take shelter. I like to imagine faeries and elves living here as well.

Moss-covered ground and tree roots

Peeling silver birch tree growing in a green forest. The tree is surrounded by a mossy green carpet, with a small rocky stream and many more trees in the background. A woman is in the distance on the left, gazing at the camera.

Mossy carpeted ground and tree roots

Grateful for . . .

Mossy places. Trail to Death Brook Falls, Adirondack State Park, New York.

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