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View over Bushbury on a misty morning

View over Bushbury on a misty morning

View from high on Bushbury Hill on a misty October morning, with the tower of Bushbury Church just peeping above the trees.

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Wood blewits, one week on

Wood blewits, one week on

Mushrooms from the same set of wood blewits featured in the previous post, pictured about a week later. The lilac tinge to the colour has faded to a nondescript pale brown. As the caps expanded their previous domed shape has inverted, and the rim is becoming slightly crinkly.

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Wood blewits, fresh

Wood blewits, fresh

Wood blewits are a common mushroom which, when they are fresh like the ones here, have a lilac tinge to the colour of the caps, gills and flesh.

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Memories of summer: purple loosestrife

Memories of summer: purple loosestrife

Pictures from a warm, sunny day back in July. Purple loosestrife flowering by the new pool in Compton Park, surrounded by other plants established on the water’s margin.

Memories of summer: purple loosestrife

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Orange peel fungus, Bantock Park

Orange peel fungus, Bantock Park

Orange peel fungus is cup shaped when it first emerges. As it spreads it looks more and more like a piece of orange peel discarded as litter.

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Web with an orange spider

Web with an orange spider

The spider owning this canalside web, picuted back in September, appeared to be distinctly orange in colour.