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Jeff, Stopping by Woods

@jeffontherock.bsky.social

Hiker, backpacker, forager, fisher, gardener, fossil finder, iPhone nature pic taker, nature nerd. Retired (biologist, ec. dev. practitioner, entrepreneur). 🇨🇦

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Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · last mo.

Sphagnum squarrosum moss. Today at #Newfoundland, Canada. #moss #bryophyte #plants

Photo of a light green moss plant. The plant has a number of spiky arms radiating out from the stem as well as a number of star-shaped tips.

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · last mo.

Our provincial flower here in Newfoundland and Labrador, the Purple Pitcher Plant.

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Common Bearberry Flowers. Northwest Territories, Canada. #flower #wildflower

Close up of a cluster of small, white, bell shaped flowers with pink petal tips. The flowers are surrounded by green, long-oval leaves.

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Midnight, June 21, ten years ago. My backyard, when I lived in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. #midnightsun #stackedstone #landscaping sub #arctic

Photo of a yard that is comprised of gravel walkways through exposed pink granite bedrock with stacked stone fence and planters. Deciduous trees and shrubs are planted here and there. Photo is taken at midnight but the light conditions are day-like due to the all-day light you get at high latitude locations.

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#hiking a near-to-home section of the East Coast Trail, this morning. #hike #trail #Newfoundland Canada

Photo of seaside landscape with ocean to the left and tree-topped cliffs to the right.

Photo of a snowshoe hare sitting (side view) on mossy forest floor. The hare is brown.

Photo of a cluster of developing balsam fir tree cones. The cones are light green at this stage of development.

Photo of a seaside scene with ocean to the right. To the left, grey cliffs rise from the ocean, transitioning to light green shrubby ground and then to coniferous forest. A trail winds through the shrubby ground.

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A very toothy young #fern. #Newfoundland, Canada. Nature #hike

Close up photo of a young fern “fiddlehead”. The top of the fern consists of a shaggy orange-brown circle with bright/light green teeth in the centre of the circle.

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Cladonia sp #lichen. Northwest Territories, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

Close up photo of several Cladonia lichen podetia which look like light grey bowls on short stalks…the bowl rims are decorated with numerous bright red blobs.

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Seaside cliff close ups. Conception Bay North, #Newfoundland Canada. Nature #Art

Close up photo of grey, flat, slate surface highlighting several block-like sections in the middle.

Photo of a vertical cliff surface with red, orange, yellow and grey sections. The surface looks like abstract art featuring multi-coloured blocks of various lengths and widths.

Photo of a flat, grey cliff surface. The surface is “cracked”, making what looks like hundreds of tiny building blocks stacked to create a wall.

Photo of a grey cliff surface featuring hundreds of cracks and crevices.

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 3mo ago

On a follow-the-river (or brook, as we call them in NL) hike on Tuesday. This brook (Broad Cove Brook) was our favourite place for swimming when I was growing up here in the 70’s and 80’s. No indoor pools in rural (outport) Newfoundland. Water temps are a smidge above “numb”. #hike #waterfall

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Lots of Cladonia #lichen on a hike through high, barren hills yesterday at #Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

Photo of a number of Cladonia lichen podetia which look like golf tees ringed with bright red blobs.

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ochrolechia sp #lichen. Pic from a hike on high barren hills yesterday. #Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends #hike #trail

Photo of a lichen featuring several apothecia (reproductive structures). The body of the lichen looks like a layer of tiny off-white beads. The apothecia, which sit flat on the lichen surface, look like slices of candied oranges.

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Iceberg at my town (Logy Bay), today…along a section of East Coast Trail. #iceberg #trail #hike #Newfoundland Canada.

Photo of a narrow iceberg. The iceberg is white in colour. The water around the iceberg is a tropical-looking green. The rest of the ocean looks dark blue-grey.

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Lichen Acarospora glaucocarpa. Northwest Territories, Canada. #lichen #fungI #fungifriends

Photo of a crustose lichen on rock. The lichen is made up of discs of various sizes that range in colour from green to brown to peach.

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 4mo ago

East Coast #Trail #hike, yesterday. Stiles Cove Path. #hiking #Newfoundland, Canada. Training for my very first race (The ECT 50 km Ultramarathon) since tenth grade…I’m 60:)

Photo of a seaside scene. Green coloured ocean is seen in the lower left corner. Seaside cliffs (brown and grey) can be seen to the right and top of the photo. There is a small, rocky beach (grey) in front of the cliffs. A small waterfall drops to the beach before flowing to the sea. The sky is blue with a few wispy, white clouds.

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Icebergs along my East Coast Trail (Sugarloaf Path) hike/run today. #hike #trail #iceberg #run

Photo of a high tree-clad ridge jutting out into blue ocean. The foreground is a mottled colour lb(yellow, brown, grey) due to low shrubs (early spring colours) and rocks. The sky is blue with rays of white cloud.

Photo of a plateau-type iceberg just off shore from grey, rocky cliffs. The sky is light blue and the can is grey-blue.

Photo of a coastal scene. The foreground shows grey rocky ground. Ocean is to the left. The background is of green, tree-clad hilly shoreline.

Photo of an iceberg in the ocean. It looks like an island. The ocean appears grey. The Sun casts a sheen on the ocean to the right of the photo. The sky is various shades of blue.

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Great fun tagging along with @dmcediacaran.bsky.social while visiting Ediacaran sites at and near my home town in Conception Bay North, Newfoundland, Canada.

Duncan McIlroy@dmcediacaran.bsky.social · 4mo ago

As tempting as it is to spend all my time in the field at Inner Meadow. This week i went on an Ediacaran adventure up the Bay de Verde Pen. with @jeffontherock.bsky.social looking at the post #KotlinCrisis interval at beautiful sites on the barrens. Access is more open after devastating fires last…

a mixture of concentric disks and rows of chambers on an Ediacaran bedding plane rock surface

Duncan McIlroy @dmcediacaran.bsky.social · 4mo ago

has anyone seen one of these before? It is in a Newfoundland #Ediacaran mudstone found with @jeffontherock.bsky.social today. It looks a bit like beetle boring in wood. Maybe @ichnologist.bsky.social has seen something like it. burrows on the same bed are positives, this is a negative feature.

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Yes, Pierre Poilievre is a dick. m.youtube.com/shorts/BUymu...

'He's a D*ck', Bob Fife, G&M, Cites Conservative MPs, Voters on #pierrepoilievre

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Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hiking the rugged, glacier-carved high barrens hills of the central Bay de Verde Peninsula. #Newfoundland, Canada. #hiking #backpacking, no #trail

Photo of a landscape comprised of dark, jagged rock. The sky above is full of dark clouds with the sun visible behind them. A light dusting of snow is on the ground.

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Another area of seaside cliffs near my home town in #Newfoundland, Canada. #geology #hike #trail

Photo of a large rock face comprised of many thin layers. The photo shows jagged layers overlapping other layers, looking like large, pointy saw teeth. The rock face is grey with some lighter streaks.

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Coastal hiking in Newfoundland, Canada is a treat for the eyes. Another view (last week) of the seaside cliffs near my hometown in Conception Bay North. #hiking #trail #ediacaran

Photo of a grey, sheer cliff face. The surface looks like it’s comprised of puzzle pieces. Blue sky is visible at the top of the photo.

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 4mo ago

While on a coastal hike, yesterday. #Newfoundland, Canada. #hike #trail #ocean

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Syntrichia ruralis #moss. Northwest Territories, Canada. #bryophytes #plants #botany

Photo of a tuft of moss that’s green-yellow in colour. The top down view shows that the moss plant tops are star shaped. The moss leaf tips have hairs extending out from the tips. The moss tuft fills the entire photo except for a sliver of light grey rock on the right side of the photo.

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A bog full of cotton grass. #Newfoundland, Canada. #flowers #wildflowers #botany #plants #bog

Photo of a bog that’s chock full of fluffy white cotton grass flowers. Some trees and rock can be seen in the distance. The bog looks green (other than the white from the cotton grass)…from grasses, sedges and other bog flora.

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 4mo ago

White Fringed #Orchid. A July/August #wildflower here in #Newfoundland, Canada. Another beauty of our ubiquitous #bogs. #flower #botany #plants

Photo of a cluster of tiny white orchid flowers among green grasses, sedges and other bog flora. Some of the orchid edges are fringed.

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Bog Laurel, a relative of Sheep Laurel (recent post) and Mountain Laurel. An iconic early summer wildflower of Newfoundland’s ubiquitous bogs. #flower #wildflowe #plants #botany #Newfoundland, Canada.

Close up photo of a cluster of small, pink flowers that look like tiny parasols. The flower buds look like pink versions of chocolate rosebuds.

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Basidiolichen, Lichenomphalia umbellifera. #Newfoundland, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends Mushroom is about 3cm (little over an inch) high.

Photo of a small yellow mushroom. The edges of the cap and the cap ridges are brown. Camera is looking upward, underneath the cap. The photo background is blue sky.

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Polytrichum moss spore capsule. NWT, Canada. #moss #bryophyte #plants. Each spore capsule is about 5mm in the longest dimension.

Photo of 5 spore capsules on thin orange stalks. The spore capsules look like tiny barrels, horizontal in orientation. The barrel tops (except for one) have orange covers with a bird beak like structure in the middle. One capsule has lost its cover, revealing what looks like a fine mesh screen over the barrel top/opening.

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 5mo ago

One of my favourite #Newfoundland, (Canada) wildflowers…Sheep Laurel. Photo from 2 summers ago. Each flower is about 1cm in diameter. #flower #wildflower #plants #botany

Photo of a large cluster of deep pink sheep laurel flowers. Each flower(of perhaps 100+ in the photo) looks like a tiny parasol. Most of the photo is pink (the flowers) with small amount of green leaves (long, thin) showing through.

Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Club #moss (green, top half of photo), several species of #lichen (white/cream colour) and three tooth cinquefoil (plants bottom left). Photo covers about 30cm, left to right. #Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

Photo of several low-to-ground green plants plus several white lichens (some fluffy tufts, some flat/crustose on rock) growing on/among flat, grey rocks.