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More patterns made by the first hard frost of autumn. The leavesof a patch of bugloss plants.

Grey spotted amanitas appear at any time from August to November on a front lawn I pass often. Usually several appear together, but this autumn there was just this one mushroom. Almost always, they have been well nibbled before I spot them.

Frost crystals on the leaves of nettles, lit by early morning sunshine before it got warm enough to melt the ice.

View across the canal by Compton on the first heavily frosted morning of the winter.

Patches of colour on fallen or felled tree trunks are often the fruiting bodies of whichever fungus rotted and weakened the tree.

Yellow cracked bolete (also called suede bolete) growing under broadleaf trees. Compare the colour visible in the gaps in the crazy paving of the cap to that of the red cracking bolete.