fuchsia

this elegant fuchsia was flowering in Kelly Bray woods, it is not f. magellanica found in the wild (but not native?) and must be an escapee. It has been suggested recently that about one-quarter of plants sold to ornamental gardeners since the 1800s have escaped, and 30 per cent of these are firmly established in the English countryside.

golden waxcaps

 

moss mushrooms

they are springing up all over the place 

they're back

.... a little joie de vivre to celebrate a walk in the woods. 

parasols

more trouble with fungi. This looks like a Saxon war shield from above. The more we look in mushroom and fungi books the more confused we get. It might be an agaric, the gills are pink ... the ring is , well, ringy. Can we eat it? You try first.

I'm back

well, I have had a fantastic two weeks with John and Fiona. Mum and Dad are back, they have gone a strange brown colour and smell of alcohol and spices. They went to More_itious and want to go back! So do we. This is not a local spider, but it does illustrate that the web is indeed world wide. The woods are becoming very autumnal but the weather feels completely out of synch> What is going on?