Vivid autumn colours on the leaves of one of the acers in West Park. There are lots of them planted all round the park, seemingly chosen so that all of them have different colours in the autumn.
Another picture of a nearby subject: a thistle with dense cover of water droplets condensed from the heavy mist.
Another nearby subject, so the morning’s heavy mist only showed through the condensation on the leaves of the yew and on the spiders’ webs. The bright red arils are not actually berries, but a soft cover around tiny cones. They may look tempting, but avoid unless you want a nasty gastric upset.
A yucca in a front garden, having a second flowering. The first and highest flower was already turning to seed.
Greater fleas have little fleas
Upon their backs to bite ‘em – so says the poem.
A similar regress of parasitism can happen in the realm of the fungi.
Honey fungus are common parasites on trees, or in this case some of the bushes in West Park. An infection is likely to be fatal for the host. These honey fungus have then been the target of a second infection by some other form of fungus or mould.
Because these dandelion seed heads were so close to me, the morning’s heavy mist only shows indirectly in the condensation on the plants.