Paul Foth
Sparrow, lichen, music fan account
Bird guide in the BC Cariboo
Occasional scholar of of religious history
Exile from the Salish Sea
- Reposted by Paul FothLichens seen on the Old Kiln Trail today 🌿 Names of what I think they are in alt-text
- Birders learning lichens: 🌿
- I would just like to put this out there: I only know who Jelly Roll is because my grandma told me about him.
- Sorry, I can't come to work on Wednesday. I have:
- 5 classes I took in college: War, Peace, and Society African Literature Globalization and Religion Nonfiction Writing Seminar Badminton
- Got a real snarky comment on iNaturalist today
- The commenter is right, though
- The narrator
- Reposted by Paul FothMe rolling up to the landfill ready to misidentify a bunch of gulls
- Recently I've been getting into learning to identify the "freckled" Peltigera lichen species. It looks like we mainly have Peltigera aphthosa (Freckled Pelt) and Peltigera leucophlebia (Ruffled Freckled Pelt) are the regulars. But I'm watching out for P. chionophila and brittanica. 🌿1/
- Winter is maybe the worst time to learn about these. They are mostly on soil and moss under snow, and I don't want to break the thalli to check the veins underneath when frozen. Here are examples of the lower surfaces of P aphthosa and leucophlebia. Descriptions of differences in alt text. 🌿2/
- Another thing I look for is the lower surface directly under apothecia. On P. aphthosa (and brittanica and chinophila) this is all or mostly green, usually a pretty wrinkly cortex. On P. leucophlebia this is mostly white with some small, broken flakes of green cortex. HOWEVER,... 🌿3/
- I'm find some intermediates, where the vein pattern leans one way and the lack/presence of cortex under apothecia leans the other. I'm not sure what to make of these, but I'm guessing the lower surface/vein pattern is more important for ID. I leave these intermediates unidentified. 🌿4/
- Day Two of being sick soundtrack: Juana Molina - Segundo (2003)
- 2. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
- 3. Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood - Nancy & Lee Again (1972)
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View full thread5. William Doyle - Your Wilderness Revisited (2019) He sounds a lot like Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree
- Canadians, It's the last day to register as an NDP member if you want to vote in the federal leadership race.
- I have a friend who once told me he dreamed the entirety of Tony Banks' 7/8 keyboard solo on "Cinema Show."
- Reposted by Paul FothI wrote about how studying Marx, the Black Radical tradition, and the Cappadocian Fathers led me to rediscover my faith, forgive the woman who killed my mother, embrace prison abolition, and champion the idea that none are saved unless *all* are saved! www.commonwealmagazine.org/forgiving-my...
- The February issue is here! Feat: - A dispatch by @kevjg.bsky.social from a DHS protest - Rita Ferrone on Leo and the liturgy - @catholicclod.bsky.social on universalism and forgiveness - James Chappel on Charles Murray and Christianity And more! www.commonwealmagazine.org/issues/2026-...
- Q. Why is it hard to describe the magical drumming in Genesis songs? A. Phil issue
- I spent 80 minutes talking with some guys about a 15-minute EP.
- Well it took three tries but the newest episode of The Album Anniversary Podcast is up. Jeremy and @paulrfoth.bsky.social help me breakdown WOW To The Deadness by Steve Taylor and the Danielson Foil! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
- I'm home sick today. What music should I listen to?
