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Rev. Robin Wells (they/them)
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🌈 💕 Nonbinary | hospice chaplain | fungi forager | Padres baseball | UMC | entheogen & consciousness studies | Venmo @roblation
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A fellow forager friend sauteed some chanterelles for me. Butter, garlic and sage. What a tasty gift!

#fungifriends🍄📷
#Harvest
#Thanksgiving🦃
Cooked chanterelle mushrooms sauteed in butter, garlic, and sage.
November 24, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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I've been away from Bsky for a while, but I'm back with another giant puffball. This one is the size of a softball.

FungiFriends🍄📷
#FungiFriday
A giant puffball mushroom. Monterey County, CA, USA
November 22, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,732,330!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #2,732,330, Rev. Robin Wells (they/them) ‪@roblation.bsky.social‬, joined on Dec 25, 2023"
September 22, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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Thanks, Joe. And please cancel my student debit. #USA
Text graphic displaying WE heart JOE over HARRIS WALZ
August 20, 2024 at 3:18 AM
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Puffball mushroom approximately 5" in diameter. It's gonna be tasty on the grill!

#FungiFriends🍄📷
#FungiFriday
Puffball mushroom in grass. 🏐
May 18, 2024 at 3:22 AM
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Miniature lupine (Lupinus bicolor)

Location: coastal Monterey County, CA, USA

#NaturePhotography📸🌿🌱🌸🪻🌼📷
May 5, 2024 at 1:14 AM
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Barometer earthstars after a rain.

Location: Monterey County, CA, USA

#FungiFriends🍄📷
Barometer earthstar in grass Barometer earthstar in grass with a growing spore. Collage of three barometer earthstars Collage of four barometer earthstars
May 5, 2024 at 12:16 AM
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Prickly pear cactus in bloom after a light rain.

Location: Monterey County, CA, USA

#NaturePhotography📸🌵🌱🌿🌸
Prickly pear cactus in bloom after a light rain. Location: Monterey County, CA, USA
May 4, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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I made a cream of mushroom soup with the springtime Amanitas I foraged today.

Springtime Amanitas are basically field calamari.

#FungiFriends🍄📷
#cooking🥣🍄
Cut Amanita velosa mushrooms dry cooking in a skillet. Cream of mushroom soup in the pan. Cream of mushroom soup in a bowl on the table
May 4, 2024 at 4:12 AM
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Some of the Springtime Amanitas (Amanita velosa) evaded the lawnmower. We get rain again tomorrow, so hoping for another flush before the season comes to an end!

Location: Monterey County, CA, USA

#FungiFriends🍄📷
#NaturePhotography📸🌿🌱
Peach colored Amanita velosa mushroom in the ground with dirt on top next to dry grass. Blue basket of Amanita velosa mushrooms next to a mushroom in ground and a pocket knife.
May 4, 2024 at 2:06 AM
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Offering a non pharmacological psychedelic experience (sound bath) for friends in the psychedelic-assissted therapies and research program.

Location: Emeryville, CA

Photo credit: S. Rezaie
April 6, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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California poppies at dusk.

Monterey County, CA

#naturephotography🌿📸
🌷🌸🌹🌺🌻🌼🪷🪻🏵️💐❇️
March 23, 2024 at 3:33 AM
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Take a look at this absolute unit!

Did I slide this bad boy into my boo's DMs? Yes.

Did my boo admit to being jealous?
Also yes.

Springtime Amanitas are delicious!

#FungiFriday🍄📆
#FungiPhile🍄♥️
#FungiFriends🍄📷
A large springtime Amanita mushroom (Amanita velosa)
March 16, 2024 at 4:52 AM
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Yes! That is the egg stage. Here's another photo of one emerging from the egg stage.
Springtime Amanita emerging from "egg" stage
March 13, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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This is a fungi first time find for me: Bankera violascens aka spruce tooth fungus. The first photo is the most true to the mushroom's violet color. The other photos were taken in low light shortly after being dug up from the leaf bed they were under.

Ryan Ranch, Monterey, CA

#fungifriends🍄📷
Spruce tooth fungus held in hand over patch of grass Underside and side views of spruce tooth fungus Spruce tooth fungus in soil. Spruce tooth fungus in soil
March 13, 2024 at 6:04 AM
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A flush of young brown elfin saddles

Monterey County, CA

#mushroomMonday
#fungifriends🍄📷
Brown elfin saddle fungus Brown elfin saddle fungus Brown elfin saddle fungus emerging from the soil Brown elfin saddle fungus
March 13, 2024 at 5:42 AM
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A tiskit a tasket. I have wild mushrooms in my basket.

#MushroomMonday
#fungifriends🍄📷
Blue basket with springtime Amanitas (Amanita velosa)
March 13, 2024 at 4:10 AM
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More springtime Amanitas in the yard and headed to the table.

Monterey County, CA

#mushroomMonday
#fungifriends🍄📷
#naturephotography📸🌿
March 13, 2024 at 4:05 AM
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Today is the 5th year anniversary of my coming out as nonbinary and having my gender identity legally recognized as gender X on my Real ID card.

Just like that Sunday 5 years ago, today I celebrated Holy Communion in the United Methodist Church.

All means all.
Grateful.
🍞 🍷 🕊️ 🌈

#UMC #enby
Minister serving Holy Communion to parishioner.
March 4, 2024 at 6:15 AM
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What a great find! The salt loving Agaricus is a tasty one! 🍽️ I'm waiting for a new flush of them in the yard! In the meantime, the Springtime Amanitas are really poppin' here.
#FungiFriends🍄📷
#nature🌿📸
🍄🥚🍦
A hand holding a Springtime Amanita mushroom in its emerging egg stage with a blue basket of more of the same mushrooms.
March 4, 2024 at 4:26 AM
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Springtime Amanita (Amanita velosa) mushrooms

Monterey County, CA, USA

#fungifriends🍄📷
#naturephotography📸🌿
March 2, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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Finding Springtime Amanitas in their varied growing stages makes me so happy!

Location: Monterey County, CA, USA

#fungifriends🍄📷#Naturephotography🌿
A young Springtime Amanita (Amanita velosa) mushroom "egg" with much of the veil still attached. Springtime Amanita (Amanita velosa) mushroom Two budding springtime Amanita (Amanita velosa) mushrooms
March 2, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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Finding edible mushrooms gives me such joy! These are springtime Amanita (Amanita velosa) mushrooms.

Location: Monterey County, CA.
Cleaned and cut springtime Amanita (Amanita velosa) mushrooms in a white bowl. Springtime Amanita (Amanita velosa) mushrooms gathered in a blue basket and placed next to growing springtime Amanitas
March 2, 2024 at 7:12 PM
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Today in fungi foraging, I found springtime Amanitas (Amanita velosa). They will be sauteed in olive oil and added to pasta.

Monterey County, CA

#fungifriends🍄📷
#foraging
#naturephotography🌿
Two springtime Amanita mushrooms (Amanita velosa) cleaned and on a paper towel Two springtime Amanitas (Amanita velosa) A springtime Amanita (Amanita velosa) growing in the ground The top cap of a springtime Amanita mushroom (Amanita velosa) in the ground
February 25, 2024 at 2:16 AM
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Hahaha. Good one!
Laughing emoji with tears
February 24, 2024 at 3:53 AM