Some colourful bits from our walk on 3rd December 2025, including fungi. Enjoy
3rd December 2025
Crimson is this season’s colour! 🔼 The red haws of the hawthorn 🔽 I think this could be a garden escapee, I don’t recognise it as native
3rd December 2025
3rd December 2025
And this being the season to make merry 🔼 Mistletoe 🔽 Ivy interlaced with bramble and ⏬ Holly
3rd December 2025
3rd December 2025
3rd December 2025
🔼 After a glut of sloes earlier this autumn, this is what’s remaining 🔽 But the apples are still ample ⏬ as are the rose hips. Plenty of Vitamin C, for free
3rd December 2025
3rd December 2025
🔽The fungi (& lichen) section… I wasn’t expecting to find any fungi so, yay, bonus!
3rd December 2025
🔼 I think it’s candle-snuff fungus 🔽 Two types of lichen looking almost festive
3rd December 2025
3rd December 2025
🔼 Flourishing in full sunlight 🔽 Brittlestems, I’m 75% sure
3rd December 2025
🔽 Yellow Brain, a curious type of fungus that grows on other fungi. Here, the host cannot be seen, but it’ll be there, hidden
3rd December 2025
That’s all for now, folks.
Next week, weather permitting, we’ll be walking closer to home. But if we don’t make it, maybe I’ll show the photos I hadn’t room for this week
crispina kemp 
This is a bright and cheery post, Crispina. Lovely!
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We must make the most of nature’s colour at this generally colourless season 💜💙💚💛🧡❤
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Absolutely!
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🥰🥰🥰
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Lovely offering. I love the Yellow Brain with the hidden host….
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Something that feeds on birch, methinks!
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Beautiful and colorful pictures Crispina.
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Thank you, Sadje. This next week walk wasn’t quite so successful. Heavy and dark overcast most of the morning. Yet I think I’ve enough to make a post
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You’re welcome! You’re marvelous, walking and gathering such beautiful pictures.
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And comments like that makes it all worthwhile! Thank you
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You’re most welcome
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🙏💖
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I got a chuckle out of the ivy, holly, and bramble photo; now I know where pimento olives come from! 😂 Oh, I just gave myself an idea for a story! May I use that photo, Chrispina?
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Look forward to seeing that! Happy you’re happy with the selection of photos
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This is really bright and colourful, Crispina. Never seen a yellow fungy.
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Isn’t it a ‘shout out loud’ colour. Wonderful!
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