Sandstone bridge which carries a lane over the Penk.
The bridge crosses the river just upstream from Penkridge. It was built in the eighteenth century, and is Grade II listed.
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Magpie in one of the trees on Tettenhall Upper Green. It seemed to be under the impression that I wanted to grab whatever it was that it was eating.
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Buttercaps, Bantock Park
More recent buttercap mushrooms, this time growing under trees in Bantock Park.
The name is supposedly because touching the caps gives a similar sensation to butter.
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Fly agaric in cane
Another stroll by the Chapel Ash roundabout, another fly agaric mushroom had popped up its head in the canes.
It had appeared long enough ago for something to have had a good go at eating it.
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White Ladies Priory
The ruins of White Ladies Priory are in Shropshire, down a quiet country lane between Bishops Wood and Cosford.
It’s a National Trust property, linked to Boscobel House at the Bishops Wood end of the lane. Boscobel was originally a hunting lodge built on the Priory land.
There is free access to the ruins, down an often muddy dirt track off the lane.
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Porcelain fungus
Porcelain fungus are delicate-looking, often pure white mushrooms.
They grow, usually in clumps, on beech trees – sometimes quite high up.
These were more accessible because they were on a fallen trunk.