The view across one of the ponds looking towards the house in the distance at Wightwick Manor recently.
Faded fly agaric mushrooms
Pictures from a re-visit exactly a week later to the fly agarics which feature here.
Rain has washed away most of the red colour from the caps, which are a bit more nibbled.
Mushrooms, Wightwick Manor wood
Mushrooms growing in the wood at Wightwick Manor recently.
They were growing among leaf-litter …
… and further camouflaged as more falling leaves landed on them.
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Glistening inkcaps, various locations
Dew-festooned web
Dewy cobweb, Wightwick Manor
Log pile
Bright red leaves and berries – and lichen too
The bush with these fruit and berries was in a front garden. It is presumably an exotic, cultivated because the autumn leaves turn to almost the same shade of glossy red as the berries.
Further along, the bush had already lost its leaves, showing the twigs were supporting a healthy growth of lichens.
Buttercap mushrooms
Fungi growing on a lock gate
Partly-eaten shaggy parasol
Canal scenes on a misty day
The view looking towards Compton Lock on a misty autumn day.
Wightwick Mill Lock, the next lock towards the Severn, shortly afterwards.
Half way between the two, looking across to a field to trees fading into the mist which are growing along the Smestow Valley Railway Walk.
The field nowadays is mainly used by dog walkers. In the canal’s heyday, it was pasture where the bargeeshorses could re-fuel overnight.