This autumn, some of the local acers seem to have outdone themselves in the brightness of the reds of their leaves. This one was in a front garden.
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Autumn fungi flush – clustered domecaps
Clustered domecaps, a fairly common mushroom which – surprise – tends to grow in clusters. They often grow close to paths, as these were doing in a woody area in West Park.
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Autumn fungi flush – fungi galore
A big pile of fungi photos: there have been so many this autumn that I haven’t kept up with posting them, or even trying to work out which species they are.
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Colours of autumn – West Park trees
Trees beside the perimeter path in West Park, changing colour before the autumn leaf fall.
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Autumn fungi flush – suede boletes
Suede boletes. From a distance, the tops of the caps do actually look rather like they’re suede, especially when the mushrooms are recent. The underside of the caps don’t have gills: boletes release their spores through pores.
These were growing under beech trees at the side of Richmond Road.
Autumn changes in an acer on a quiet residential street. In mid-October (first picture) most of the leaves had already turned bright red. Ten days later the colours had perhaps got a little deeper, with leaf fall accelerating. Another fortnight left the tree almost bare. The pictures are close-ups of some of those leaves still clinging on.