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Knobbly coal fungus (aka cramp ball, King Alfred’s cake) on a tree stump. A species of dead and decaying trees.

Church Street, Chipping Norton runs down a short, steep hill from the main street through the market town to the parish church on the edge of the Cotswolds countryside. The houses on the street all seemed to have hollyhocks grwoing in front, each with a different shade of flower.

Moth resting under cover for the day, on the old glass in the window of the porch of St Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton.

Some of the flowers in the garden at New Place, Stratford on Avon, last month.

Lichen thriving in the unpolluted Cotswolds air, growing on the King Stone, the largest of the Rollright Stones.

Oystercatchers in short grass by a lake between the West Midlands Golf Course and River Blythe. Hapton in Arden Packhorse Bridge and Marsh Lane Nature Reserves both close by. Pictures are from way back in July 2011