The “beards” are feathery structures which develop as the seeds ripen (top and bottom pictures).
These pictures of seeds at various stages of ripeness were taken at the same time, and are of seeds on different branches of the same plant, a garden plant which is escaping over a wall.
Close-up views, complete with street litter, of some honey fungus. This is a common parasite of trees. It is often found on tree stumps, as here.
After a cold night, the frost on these leaves was trapped on the downy growths on their surface.
This red admiral was sunbathing on a brick wall in the middle of November.
These were growing in the same short grass as yesterday’s mushroom.
The first picture is of a different individual: these are two views of the same toadstool. They and others which wer visible almost certainly sprang up from one connected network of fungus under the ground.
