Painted lady butterfly resting on the trackside ballast at Hereford railway station. The insect had just finished feeding on a nearby buddleia bush, and was perhaps warming itself in the sun.
The Prince, mushroom, fruiting bodies pushing their way through the vegetation in a spot where they emerge regularly each year, usually in August. The first four pictures in this set were taken within perhaps a day of the fruiting bodies emerging; the other four pictures a week later.