I interrupt the Fungi Fest, for this week only, to bring you this… cos it was amazing.
Yes folks, it’s upside down…
I went in search of pine trees, for their specific fungi. But the woodland is mixed with deciduous.
Calm yet… we haven’t fully entered the woods…
And on this one DRY and SUNNY day…
Feast your eyes on that colour
the Mother Beech came out to play!
And look at that incredibly tangled ancient trunk…
I just had to share these photos… But I’m not done yet
Late for a dragonfly, this Darter’s colour is in keeping with the day
And, because I don’t want you getting fungi-withdrawals…
Just like apricots tucked in amongst the bracken.
Possibly Powdercaps, but they could as easily be the golden version of Fly Agaric, depends on what colour those stipes. Then again, they might be waxcaps… except the cap don’t look waxy. Ho-hum.
crispina kemp 
Nice photographs.
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Thanks Joanne. And they’re just the ones I posted. I guess I wanted to get in that native English trees can be as flamboyantly coloured as anything New England has to offer.
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Absolutely stunning!
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I agree, absolutely. The more so startling after so long with stubborn greyness 🙂
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What a fall feast! (for the eyes)
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Indeed. I just had to share it. The past 6 weeks have been so grim. Finally, the sun shone!
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The colors are indeed a feast…..that golden yellow light and dark trunks and branches make such a beautiful contrast. So beautiful but I must settled for the rustling palms though not as seasonal. Yet the snowbirds leave their crimson and yellow trees to come down here.
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They don’t leave the trees. They leave the lack of food. 🙂
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LOL, well I was referring the people snow birds but they probably leave the with the first blizzard for the warmth!! Yeah real birds for food and maybe to nest in warmer climes.
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Sorry. I ought to know that. I think you’ve referred to them as that before.
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LOL, not too worry. Not everyplace is a stopping over point for people migration every winter. Its a big part of Florida economics.
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I guess I was thinking UK-wise. No winter migrations here, unless it’s to Spain
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I wonder if our people snow birds see their own birds down here too….all creatures must seek comfort and survival. I imagine Spain would be a wonderful respite!! Beautiful as the UK is, I realize that you deal with far more cold than I do. In fact just remembering once years ago I caught my self telling someone “Its going to drop down to 70 tonight.” LOL!!
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UK doesn’t get it as bad as places in the States and in Canada. We’re bathed by the Gulf Stream, and in East Anglia we’re in a rain shadow. It has to come from the East before we get it.
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That gorgeous beech tree! I can almost smell that earthy, autumn scent. Lovely Crispina
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But do you see its trunk? Have you ever seen anything like that? Like it’s been plaited. We’re so used to seeing standard beech trees in hedges and parkland. One wonders its age and its history.
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Yes, it would be fascinating to know its age. Aged trees are always wonders, outliving so many generations of people, witnesses to so much change.
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I know there are some trees in this woodland that have preservation orders. We saw a birch with a girth like you’ve never seen. And I’m certain this one must qualify.
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I don’t consider myself a ‘tree hugger’ in the New Age sense, but anyone who doesn’t have a desire to come up close with a tree that old, who doesn’t want to touch its bark and get close to it is a bit odd in my book.
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Indeed. As a child I talked to the trees. The beech in particular. The fairies live in the beech trees. 🙂
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What a wonderful walk that must have been! I’m intrigued by the trees That “Tangled ancient” one is amazing. I agree that the colours of the trees are just as vibrant as the one’s I see here in Toronto. But we’ve lost ours now for snow. Thank you for sharing your photos 🙂
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What was most amazing what how they shone forth after so long of damp grey days.
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Yah Hmm More power to them! They were waiting for the sun and boom! 🙂
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Something like that. One wonders how brilliantly coloured they’d be on a miserable day.
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I dunno..Maybe not as brilliant without the warmth of the sun. Hmm
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Indeed.
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🤔🙂
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Very interesting pictures.
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Thank you. It was a beautiful day
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You’re welcome 😉
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Stunning shots! ✨🙂
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I thank you. Difficult to know which ones to include. I came home with 200, but some of those were of the river, and others of fungi
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Your choices seem to suggest you have a treasure trove of beautiful pictures all ready to be shared. ☺️ I especially loved those old tree trunks and their golden foliage.
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Those twisted trunks belong to a beech. And I have never seen them looking like that. Though beech and birch are our most colourful trees this time of year.
And yea, I do have a treasure trove, and added to almost weekly. Well, they’ll last the winter months when I mightn’t be able to get out.
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What a beautiful and brilliant post!
That upside-down image is breathtaking… and that beech… holy moly. What a crazy-wild trunk and that “head of leaves hair”… stunning.
What a treat you have given us this morning.
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I thank you, Dale. They were photos that had to be shared.
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Yes, they most certainly did!
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🙂
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These are wonderful and so is your sense of humor in the captions! Thank you for sharing these with us Crispina! 😀 ❤
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Thank you for appreciating them. 🙂
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Up Amazing photos but I am glad you threw in a fungi shot or it just wouldn’t have been Sunday!
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Well, I couldn’t not, could I. And they were lovely fungi. The perfect colour match 🙂
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Gorgeous colors! That’s something I truly miss about living farther north, the fall colors. Thank you for sharing!
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Well, we in the UK don’t sport many bright fall colours. Basically, beech and birch, that’s our lot. Unless it’s an import.
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Still very pretty! I happened to be in China when all the ginkgo trees were in full yellow, and it was gorgeous, even without any other colors..
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Yellow is such a happy colour. Fntastic against a grey November sky 🙂
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Gorgeous photos. Those colours, wow!
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Thank you, Jennifer. Sorry for delay in responding. I’ve just discovered you in my spam folder. 🙂
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Now, why would WordPress think I was spamming you? Funny how that happens!
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I think it was the combination of your words. If you look at the spams, many of them are worded along similiar lines.
But isn’t it a crying shame that we can’t enthuse over a fellow blogger’s post without being mistaken for a spam?
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Ha ha, indeed! (Was that too spammy? 😂)
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Nah, it landed in the right place! 🙂
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