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A minority of fungi are poisonous - some fatally so - but it is a small percentage. However, there are many more that are similar in appearance and you need to know what you are doing to tell the difference. This is the false death cap which is supposed to smell of lemons - I have never been able to get that. Unlike the true death cap, this one is edible but only if you like raw potatoes.
So many knapweed flowers on box hill but needs must want the one the other cousin is using. Marbled whites in competition for nectar.
First the forecast predicted mist, then sunshine and then cloud but looking out saw the mist coming around 7.30 this morning. Hotfoot into the forest.
On the edge of an ancient woodland, just catching the late August sun are the first of the season's acorns.
I’ve pushed things further on this theme with this shot ⬇️
From a New Year's Day visit to my local woods before the sun came up and while the mist persisted. Amazing that one can't really see this blue cast because the brain compensates for how it should appear - the camera can't do that.
A vintage Autumn day along the lazy waters of a tidal creek. The sun has cast jewels upon the water which float amongst the reeds. Would a greedy fool with a net would try to take them? Even as they disappear upon his approach the river mud should swallow him up...
A glorious mid-March day, bright sunshine and reasonably warm, a few light rain showers but nothing to worry about. A few people about but not that many even though the car park was reasonably full with some cars on the road.
I will be glad when some of the lockdown restrictions are eased and I am allowed to go further afield. A few places I intend to visit once we have permission to set a tripod up.
A trio of images that were taken at Stoke Bardolph just before the recent snow fall and it shows how the River Trent had risen and broken its banks. The levels had started to drop but the snowfall has brought the river back up to dangerous levels.
I have processed to convey a feeling of bleakness
Do not use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © Nigel Stewart
This beautiful specimen allowed me to lie in the heather for a few hours watching her doze, stretch, and eat her own poop!
That's the major colours recorded, just the variegated ones next. Then the lilies, and the gladioli. And some wildflowers. And there's a new apple tree. And, oh I can't even remember...
(Exposure mostly SOOC, 10:8 crop and some fiendish little black spots zapped out. If only it was that easy in real life.)
Our garden, June 2024
Dull, grey and wet, adequately sums up this morning. Having said that we are definitely in need of some rain. Surprisingly, taking into consideration the weather good numbers of people about, although the only one fishing was a grey heron on Great Pond.
Week 13 and a quarter of the way through this project; time is moving too quickly.