nuts

the intricacy of nature on a small scale is fascinating, even in something seemingly as simple as a nut, almost as if the design is for the joy of it.

wrinkled club

clavulina rugosa, a wrinkled club, apparently both solitary and gregarious.

a good walk

all four of us, steaming along in the bright light after a good walk.

spate

the river is close to flooding. These eddies in midstream under Horsebridge are an image of chaos in turbulent flow. The vortices weave into one another; it is wonderful and exhilarating.

Crisis strikes

we have been having very severe problems ever since we tried to install Internet explorer 7 on a nice quiet functioning PC system. Crash bang goodbye followed by major rescue etc etc (I'm sure you have all been there) followed by total inability to access web pages, blog sites (ever since we moved to blogger beta) etc etc. And it started raining. It may well be that we are still blocked from logging onto our own blog, time will tell. Moral of the story : never let a giftware in the house.

milk caps

with a couple of small drops of the'milk' that gives the group its name, probably lactarius subdulcis