Categories
David

Autumn colours: gaudy maple leaves

Autumn colours: gaudy maple leaf

Leaves of a maple in a garden hedge, showing a range of rich, vivid autumn colours.

Categories
David

Yellow stagshorn on a mossy fallen trunk

Yellow stagshorn, Himley Plantation

Yellow stagshorn is a common fungus which grows on wood, sometimes on deeply buried roots. It feels slimy when damp, but more orange than yellow when dry, as here.

Categories
David

Yellow cracked boletes on a grassy bank

Yellow cracked bolete on a grassy bank

Yellow cracked boletes (also know as suede boletes or brown and yellow boletes) growing on a grassy bank under birch and conifer, overlooking the ring road.

Categories
David

Dogs begin to bark

Dogs begin to bark

Couple of narrowboats moored at Brewood. A pair of dogs wandering between the backs of the two boats seemed to start and stop barking in unison at random intervals.

Categories
David

Meadowsweet and yarrow flowering by a canal

Meadowsweet by a canal

Meadowsweet and yarrow flowering by a canal recently. Yarrow’s flowering season runs from summer to late autumn, but meadowsweet’s is supposed to be over by August.

Yarrow by a canal

Categories
David

Views from Sedgley Beacon towards Wolverhampton city centre and Birmingham

View from Sedgley Beacon towards Wolverhampton city centre

Views from Sedgley Beacon, looking more or less north towards Wolverhampton city centre and south-east towards Birmingham.

View from Sedgley Beacon towards Birmingham