On our hike at Purisma creek open space today we encountered ~100 banana slugs, including this pair. With their yin yang positioning, we’re pretty sure they were about to mate (more baby slugs! ​)

OMG: young owls hanging out on a branch over our driveway! Squeeee!  ​

Coworker found these while cleaning his home office; apparently from the OpenBSD kiosk at a USENIX conference back in the day… ​

Met this big boy while pruning a (sadly neglected) cork oak

“Hey, what are you?”
“You smell good”
“Nom nom nom”

It was not a day to get the recipe right before putting 2/3 of it in the oven.

Turkey tail mushrooms growing on a log at Pescadero county park

Spatula fungi, in both yellow and black. Neither should be used for stirring food on the stove.

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