I make no excuse for posting another fungi photo. The contrasting colours of the clustered fungi and the flint-like flakes of the pine stump rushed at my eyes and grabbed me.
Fungi, pine and heather at Waveney Forest: Photo 8th October 2018
Waveney Forest rises above the extensive Haddiscoe-Fritton grazing marshes. Even so, an unexpected view of abandoned windmills (I can count three, plus the C20th replacement).
Abandoned mills on the Waveney; Photo 8th October 2018
Also unexpected was this inlet of silver birches, all lopped off, looking like upstanding pencils, with their inner red bark ghosting through.
Pencil-like birches: Photo 8th October 2018
And the unexpected star of the day …
Earth Stars: Photo 8th October 2018
The first time I’d seen an earthstar.
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Gorgeous. And please, do NOT make apologies… you can post one every day! I would have stopped, too
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Well, there could be another fungi photo later this week. Yesterday’s walk yeilded a few–all dripping wet cos it rained all day.
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Good! And good for you for walking in the rain… it’s that time of the year where the cold goes to your bones when it rains…
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Strangely, this morning I had no aches. Until I went out. A dense mist hung around to seep into unprotected joint, while yesterday, walking, walking, I didn’t notice the wet or the cold. Having said that, I did stop into a village inn for a good strong coffee.
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Oh dear…
At least you stopped to warm up..
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Well, I’m hoping to get out tomorrow. No great hike, just a local wetland wood. If I can clear the backlog of (don’t swear) housework.
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Hard not to swear when it comes to *@?! housework….
My next opportunity to go for a walk is Sunday… I’m working 9 days in a row…
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Oh, nine days; that’s rough. Let’s hope the weather is good when you do get the day off. I’ve put the walk off till tomorrow. A whole row of interruptions this morning, plus I forgot to charge the battery in the camera. Duh.
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Drat indeed… I should make sure mine is up to snuff…
And if not Sunday, I have Tuesday.and Wednesday 😁
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I’d say Tuesday is your best bet. You’ll have all day Wednesday to recover! But I’m definitely out in the morning, early, first bus. I’m only off to the next (tiny) town along, but it’s 10 miles across the marshes. Then to renew my acquaintance with the ‘carr’ there. It’s a wonderful wetland woods, if rather small, that abuts the grazing marshes.
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Oh lovely.
Well… I used to take long walks every day with Zeke. Now he looks at me, imploringly, hoping. My schedule has sucked and when I have had a day off, I find myself doing sh*t that needs to be done… Sigh.
I think I’ll bring him up to Mount Royal or Ile Ste-Hélène in an attempt at forgiveness…
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And I’m sure that will do you both loads of good. You know what they say about all work … take a break, take some air.
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Seriously.
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I’ve never even heard of an earth star, let alone seen one! That’s astonishing – weird and beautiful too. Yes, bring on the fungi, I say
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This is the first I’d seen. It’s one of those I’d consigned to the ‘maybe, one day’ category. When I saw it I was like jumping and hooting: Yey, yey, yey! I didn’t attempt to name it within its family.
And I note your enthusiasm for fungi. That’s as well, that’s mostly all I’m getting at the moment.
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So exciting, seeing something unusual though. I’ve been excited by hearing wood peckers in the city. seeing house martins (as I’d never had them nesting close by before), foxes in the garden, the pipestrelles thar fly over our garden in the evening. All common enough sightings, but exciting for me. And I am fascinated by fungi, so keep those shots coming
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I share your excitement at seeing new things (new to us, not to the world). The first time I saw a spoonbill, and a little egret (now become common as it’s taken to breeding across the marshes), and bearded tits, they’re beautiful; and the long-tailed tit I had to rescue from between sash windows; then the tiny firecrest that fell, exhausted, at hy feet. Incredible.
And don’t fret. those fungi will keep on coming.
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Sounds like you have a lovely array of birds near you – I get excited by sparrows round here! I’ll look forward to more fungi 🙂
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And lo ….!
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Since we’ve mentioned him in other contexts, I should mention that Lovecraft wrote a cycle of sonnets called “Fungi from Yuggoth.”
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‘The Verse of the Killer King Fung’? Just a thought. My mind boggles at the idea of a sonnet to a fungus, especially one from Yuggoth
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The entire sequence is on the Net, among other places on Wikipedia’s Wikisource section:https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fungi_from_Yuggoth
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I shall indulge my fungi infested brain. 🙂
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Oh, I’ve just looked at this. That warrants an unhurried reading. I thank you for the link.
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First time to see an Earthstar too.
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And then, a couple a weeks later I saw another. I might get round to posting the pic, though it wasn’t easy to get focus, too much vegetation in front of it. Hence, at the moment it remains in my fungi-folder
& thanks for the follow 🙂
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