The hot dry summer hasn’t been good for fungi throwing out new fruiting bodies. This mushroom was an exception. It was growing either from the base of a tree stump, or right next to it – the stem was in deep shade, and I couldn’t get close enough to see exactly where it emerged.
Lavender flowers, seen close to. It’s amazing what the cameras built in to mobile phones can manage nowadays.
I was actually trying to get pictures of bees feeding on the flowers. But, with perfect timing, the bee moved out of shot as I pressed the button.
The brown remains of a cow parsley, which flowered in early spring, in front of a patch of purple loosestrife, flowering currently. A few great wilowherb, also flowering )with flowers much the same colour as the loosestrife) have also got into the picture.
The shiny metallic green of the body of the greenbottle fly, and its bright red eyes, as it suns itself on a mint, and flies from leaf to leaf.
The range of colours adopted by blackberries as they ripen on a bramble. Some look as though they are already good enough to eat.
Teazles at the end of their flowering season. Before the Stratford on Avon LNR was developed as a nature reserve, one of the fields which had more or less been left to manage itself was dominated by teazles.
