Late summer calling
with the lowest hum of heat,
from earth and from air.
Hay harvested, the soil waits
for a thunderstorm to break.
Category: Nature
Fungi in the park
I’ve been watching this fungi in the park for a couple of weeks, wondering what it is. It’s growing on an oak tree that was planted in 1911, to mark the coronation of George V and Queen Mary. The tree has had an interesting time of it, in the summer of 2009, it cracked down through its middle. Tree surgeons were able to rescue it, by reducing the crown, they say it will last another hundred years.
When I saw the fungus, I though it looked like a batch of currant buns! From what I discovered, it seems I was on the right lines.
I think they are a kind of bracket fungus, with Bread Roll Fungus for it’s common name. Unless you know any different?
Wordless Wednesday
Lazy Poet’s Thursday Haiku
Crinkly whorls and notches
Miniature Lunar landscape
Sustains diverse life
Weekly Photo Challenge, Opposites
Hey WordPress guys, could you come up with an easy prompt once in a while please? Only joking, know it’s a challenge.
Opposites. Well Exmouth, my closest beach, is opposite the nature reserve across the estuary at Dawlish Warren. Here is the nature reserve at low tide, in winter when its a rest stop for migrating birds, as well as a permanent home to a variety of birds.
Now, the depth of field makes this look different from the reality. The grassy sand dunes are on the south west of the Exe, while the yellow apartment blocks are on the north east, with a mile of water in between.
Does this second photo help or hinder? I promise you that nature and manmade are definitely opposites here!
Looking down from the balcony of my favourite Pimm’s hostelry, the sand spit on the opposite side of the estuary is Dawlish Warren nature reserve.
Black and White Sunday,Diagonals
Staying Grounded
Late Spring Wildflowers
I think it’s the last weekend for Jude’s Wildflower theme and I found these four simple pretties while I was walking the dogs today, so I thought I’d share them.
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Lazy Poet’s Thursday Haiku
Bokeh of daisies
like tiny white tinkerbells
through the rowan leaves
Wordless Wednesday
Lucid Gypsy 