ROCK STAR DIVA

At the Dollar Store in Prince Rupert you can get really cool stuff like this ROCK STAR DIVA wig for Halloween Festivities.

ROCK STAR GROUPIE

Yeah this is my favourite groupie. He likes smashin' stuff, drinkin' pilsner, breakin' things and fighting and burning stuff.

POISON!!

This mushroom is not to be taken lightly (or at all) unless you want to be in a state of berserk frenzy. Used by Siberian peasants 200 years ago - they actually searched it out for the berserk frenzy feeling!

Self Portraits in the Nass Valley

Nass Valley

Fall in the Nass Valley

New Aiyansh

Fall in the Nass Valley

Fall in the Nass Valley

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Fall in the Nass Valley

Fall in the Nass Valley

a very beautiful and mystical place....

Fall in Nass Valley (continued)

Vince seems to fit right in with the lovely colours of fall.

Fall in the Nass Valley

Last weekend, we took a bit of a road-trip out of rupert to explore. After spending a rainy evening in the cedar motel in terrace, we awoke to semi-clear skies and snowy peaks and took a drive up to the Nass Valley, home of the Nisga'a Memorial Lava Beds, home of BC's most recent volcanic activity - just over 200 years ago. Amazing scenery up there, with fall colours, lichens growing everywhere on the lava rock (learned a bit about plant succession), far-away, massive peaks and surreal weather. Nisga'a legend has it some children were making fun of spawning salmon by sticking burning twigs in their backs as they were swimming up stream and laughing as the smoke poured from their backs. The eruption was punishment for forsaking the gift of the salmon and resulted in many thousands of villagers losing their lives in the lava flow.

Here's some shots of the scenery, and the trusty old toyota van that took us there.

Fungus Amung Us (Part II)

Green Pipecleaners

Wall Sconce or Mushroom?

You decide...

THE MUSHROOM GAME TIME

Yes that's right - get out your mushroom I.D. guides - it's time to play NAME THAT MUSHROOM! I wager it is a brain mushroom!

Spore Print/ Art School Project

This is a Spore print that Vince made from one of his many mushrooms in his herbarium collection. Pretty groovy huh?

Caterpillar or Funky Eyebrows

For whatever reason there are lots of caterpillars everywhere like this one you see here. They are ubiquitous. (I just wanted to use that word.)

BUCK OFF!

A buck came into our yard and hung out for a couple of hours and ate our grass. Maybe we don't need a lawnmower afterall....