Moment of Zen
EJ's Nature and Angling
Combining my love of the great outdoors and teaching others to be good stewards to the environment while thriving within it.
11/07/2026
The answer is mushrooms. Always mushrooms.
Mushroom of the Week: Chicken of the woods, a forest parasite saving lives Residents of Aiken-Augusta might soon observe vivid yellow shelves growing from local oak trunks. This fungus, Chicken of the Woods, is a natural contradiction. Sometimes, it causes the wood to turn reddish-brown and powdery, a process called brown heart rot. While this eventually kills host trees,....
"AND I SAID: GODDAMN! GODDAMN THAT SKEETER PUSHIN' MAN!"
09/07/2026
7/7/26 Hike
Bigtoad, amphibious phalange of Bigfoot.
08/07/2026
Shoot. Edit. Edit. Shoot. Shedit. Eoot. Bent at the waist for minutes. Crawling through slop.
Your doctor tells you that you're slightly anemic– you don't tell him it's because of the gotdamn mosquitoes.
But, it's worth it if even one person loves it or gets a nature fix that they can't get any other way.
I had someone comment on YouTube "Whats the point of this video?"*
Me: "To give you a break from doomscrolling, if only for 30 seconds."
*A Moment of Zen video
Lilium superbum, or the Turk's Cap lily, is a native North Americam lilly– beware of imitators! Asiatic tiger lillies these are not!
Just take a look at the trees in the background and when my face gets full sunlight and you'll know exactly what I mean. Still need to figure out a polarized lense for the backward facing lense– or just bite the bullet and start using the handheld again. Now that I think of it, this lense may even fit on it!
Baby toad season! I say "hatch" in the video– EMERGE! THEY EMERGE FROM THE WATER. They done hatched a while ago!
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