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Tiny mushrooms growing in a bed of moss. They are small moss oysterlings.

Wrinkled club fungus, barely standing proud of the short grass of a mossy front lawn. The fungus comes back every year at around this time to the same patch of lawn.

Flowers on a strawberry tree a few days ago. Actually a bush rather than a full-grown tree, so the foliage was conveniently at body height.

Tiny mushrooms which appear as a crowd, and have gone within a day or two once they have shed their spores. They may be less than an inch high, but these trooping crumblecaps force their way up through the tarmac of a pavement.

They produce at least one crop a year, usually more if the conditions are right. Each time, they raise a bigger gap in the tarmac.

A bright red dragonfly, or perhaps two, on the wooden footbridge over the Compton Park pond back in late August.

It’s a common darter, a male. Perhaps having a rest, but more likely hoping that a female will come along and notice it.