Wolves Wild

The surface is covered in cracks, and to me looks rather scruffy, indicating it is an earthball rather than a puffball, another type fungus with a somewhat similar shape.

Looking along the canal, with the Wightwick Lock lock-keepers cottage just peeping through the trees in the distance.

The fresher of the two collared earthstars which featured in this post, rephotographed a week later, showing changes to the form over time.

Something had clearly found these honey fungus tempting enough to have a good nibble.

Despite the name, they are rated as inedible for human consumption.

Bright red and yellow from ripe crab apples on two trees growing side by side next to the canal in the field behind Compton Lock.

Windfalls and apples still ripening on one of the trees in the orchard at Anne Hathaway’s cottage at Shottery, just outside Stratford on Avon.

View downstream from the ferry landing and boat hire area opposite the RSC’s Courtyard Theatre at Stratford on Avon.

Just a few hundred yards further downstream, and the scene looks like one of rural tranquillity. There is actually a busy main road heading up the slope to the left of the picture.

The scene looking upstream from the ancient bridge at Bidford on Avon.

View of the bridge itself, busy with traffic. It is only wide enough for vehicles to travel in one direction at a time.

Bright colours of autumn: red (for danger) yew berries and the tree’s evergreen leaves.

They were growing through sphagnum moss on damp ground.