Category: David

This waterlily on the pond at Wightwick Manor garden still had a flower on September 10th (it was Heritage Open Day, when the garden could be seen without the usual £4 entrance fee).

At its largest, this mushroom can grow to about six inches tall, with a cap of about six inches in diameter. This makes it the second largest mushroom which can be commonly found around here, smaller only than the Parasol mushroom, which can get to about twice as big.

The brown “shaggy” substance on the cap is remnants of protective coating.

There was a troop of these fruiting bodies near to Southgate in West Park, between twenty and thirty, at a spot they regularly pop up at this time of year. When I saw them they had, so far, escaped kicking down because they were hard to see under low branches.

A common garden spider. The larger female is normally the one which is easy to notice, especially when enlarged as here, presumably with eggs.

Just for once, no picture with this post.

Instead, here is a link to the very first post on this blog, which was made exactly two years ago.

Since then I’ve only missed one single day. That was later in the first week. Apart from that once, there has been at least one new post every single day – recently it seems to have usually been two per day.

The current score is around eleven hundred posts, featuring well over two thousand images and a dozen or so short videos. As yet I’m not seeing any signs of running out of fresh subjects to picture.

A patch of ivy growing near Compton Mill lock must have been in a favourable position. It had already started flowering earlier than the rest, over a week ago, so there were wasps all over it, feeding.

The recent strong winds brought down a lot of acorns and conkers before they had ripened. I had taken this picture a couple of days earlier.