David

Cramp balls, coal fungus, King Alfred’s cakes: a distinctive fungus growing on dead and dying trees. These on a trunk, brought down in winter storms some years ago, being allowed to decay naturally on the edge of the wildflower area in Bantock Park.

The hairy red / orange thorax and abdomen of the female tawny mining bees make them easy to identify.

Get their name from excavating their living quarters, preferring soil on south-facing slopes.

Male orange tip butterfly which visited almost every alkanet flower in garden before flying off to investigate other gardens nearby.

Usually a shy butterfly.

Only the males have the orange tips to the wings.

Horsetails – primitive flowerless plants from out of the dawn of time – and hated by gardeners because they are very hard to get rid of.

These are growing where a pavement meets a garden wall.

Large spider disturbed in a sheltered area outsideyesterday.

Another set of pictures of rainbows in the windows of houses in streets near where I live – plus one of the images chalked on a pavement.

Show support for NHS and all essential workers at 8 pm tonight.