Aspen

Tree-fetish Tuesday #20

To spend time inside an aspen copse like this is rare delight. They are pretty hard to find.

Fencepost of Dangers Past

Fencepost of the Week #26

The life of the fencepost photographer is full of DANGER...

23rd March 2003

13th August 2011

The H.B. at the top suggests that this fencepost may have previously been a Hydro-Board electric power-line pole, that was chopped up and used for fencing. The two photos were taken 8 years apart - not much seems to have happened in the meantime. The weather certainly hasn't improved much.

Gloeophyllum Sepiarium

Monday Mushroom #18

Gloeophyllum sepiarium! What a wonderful name. This is one of the most abundant mushrooms in clear-felled areas of forestry plantations - it plays its part in rotting down stumps and large chunks of timber left behind after the trees have been harvested.

This one is cheekily having a go at decomposing a fencepost! <3

They have similarly labyrinthine gills to the maze-gill fungus, but on a smaller scale. 

Fresh fruiting bodies are felty.

Old fruiting bodies are papery.

Newton T Bear

Lines and Dots

a broken line...

The Walnut Moth Discovered

There it lay - soft, crumpled, bereft of life. A secret too well kept. It could have lived, but failed to endure the test. Could have fluttered beautifully, effortlessly on the breeze, if only it had first gained egress.

Fencepost of the Week #24

More of these beautiful, swiss cheese-like fenceposts from Shetland.