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A Dandy Snake

letsdeliquesce — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:08:43 +0000

For the New Yorker’s annual Eustace Tilley bookbag design contest, I dressed up a silkscreen of a garter snake I did a few months ago with items around the apartment: fleece, corduroy and paper scraps, buttons, a key ring, a necklace, and cellophane from an envelope. It was a fun way to spend a Saturday afternoon. Have you ever tried to make a suit and top hat for a snake? It’s a silly endeavor, I tell ya. But here it is, Eussssssssstace Tilley!

Contest ends January 18, 2012 so get yours in quick!

Eusssssssstace Tilley

Another One of Olive

letsdeliquesce — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:38:31 +0000

Olive

letsdeliquesce — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:35:47 +0000

GIF of Olive!

Wooly Mammoth!

letsdeliquesce — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:30:31 +0000

I’ve long wanted to make a wooly mammoth costume. I had the chance this past Halloween. It was a blast and it’s not just for Halloween, y’know. Keep your eyes peeled for a wooly mammoth loping across your horizon. You never know where I’ll turn up.

I dance too. Click the images to view. Dance along. Wooly mammoth jazzercize!

Pocket Full of GIFs

letsdeliquesce — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:59:48 +0000

A place to put my GIFs. You don’t mind do you? Click the box below to see it. You may then hafta click the box again to see it. Making GIFs is my new hobby.

What A Summer!

letsdeliquesce — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:55:47 +0000

Happy December! A few announcements. I have a new website, anneyen.com. Please check it out! Second of all, this particular blog will expand from covering my mushroom adventures to adventures in the field. And to start, I wanted to do a quick recap of the summer, which was incredible in terms of field work.

For three field seasons (ranging from 3 to 6 months), I’ve worked as a Biological Field Technician for the National Park Service at Gateway National Recreation Area, a coastal National Park located in Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island, NY and Sandy Hook, NJ. One of the projects I worked on was herpetological monitoring, the monitoring of amphibians and reptiles in the park, specifically Floyd Bennett Field and Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. We used methods such as coverboards, anuran sound calls, and incidental encounters. This past summer produced the most snake activity I’ve experienced in my three field seasons there. We turned up eastern garter snakes the most, with nearly every check, and eastern milk snakes a close second. Fowler’s toads appeared commonly in the North Forty of Floyd Bennett Field, even on the hottest of days. And every now and then we were treated to the sight of a eastern box turtle, diamondback terrapins and woodcocks (not a herp, I know). Great summer at Gateway NRA!

Click to view slideshow.

I Got Lucky…

letsdeliquesce — Sun, 08 May 2011 00:35:59 +0000

…for not knowing where to go! But I am a lucky person as it is, regardless.

morels come true

It’s Time

letsdeliquesce — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:38:44 +0000

morels on the brain bag, color pencil and marker by Anne Yen

is it true or false, watercolor by Anne Yen

So Sure the Russula

letsdeliquesce — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:06:17 +0000

Russula, watercolor by Anne Yen

I love Russulas. There’s something so solid about them, something so sure. I love the colors of their caps, in all shades of warms and cools, atop a stout stem. There’s a certain lack of ambivalence about them that makes them so assuredly Russulas when you find them in the forest duff. Just don’t ask me to tell them apart by species. And as I learned last night at a New York Mycological Society talk by Noah Siegel, co-president of the Monadnock Mushroomers Unlimited in New Hampshire, some mushrooms (I forget which) we never considered as Russula, are indeed, thanks to DNA sequencing. According to the talk and recent science news in the media, DNA sequencing is rearranging relations of all kinds of taxa, resulting in renaming and rethinking of where things are on the evolutionary tree. Much confusion and head-scratching among the scientific community results. So maybe this post should be called, Not So Sure the Russula.

Regardless, Russulas are a fun way to indulge and experiment with rich colors when painting. And I will still be excited to find them in the urban forest.

Morchella Mania

letsdeliquesce — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:38:54 +0000

they’re coming…

Morchella Mania in ink, by Anne Yen