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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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