River Severn

Clouded Funnel (Clitocybe nebularis)

Shanshui

Brown Birch Bolete (Leccinum scabrum). Fruiting here in symbiotic relationship to birch tree roots.

Lime leaf on spider silk, River Severn.

Fairy Tale

Hands up!

Horse Mushroom (Agaricus arvensis)

Jackdaw, negotiating a mayonnaise sachet. Grasmere

The crypt at St. Mary, Lastingham. Ryedale, Yorks.

Early 13c floor tiles, Byland Abbey, North Yorkshire

Lichen drawing, Byland Abbey, Yorks.

Stinking Dapperling (Lepiota cristata), Salop

Bonnets (Mycena galericulata), Salop

River Tern, Salop

A bit late in the season for inside–out.

Common Toad (Bufo bufo) encounter, crossing the forest path to the Mount Snever Observatory above Byland Abbey.

Leaf litter, reflected sky. Grasmere

Grasmere

Dry stone wall, Grasmere

Laurence Sterne’s tombstone, removed when the churchyard at St. George Hanover Square was cleared in 1969, to the porch of St. Michael’s church at Coxwold (Yorks) where he had been perpetual curate from 1760.

Amethyst Deceiver (Laccaria amethystina). Under Snever Scar, uphill from Byland Abbey, Yorks.

This way, this way!

St. Mary, Lastingham

Anglo-Saxon copper alloy dress pins (7-9c). Whitby Museum.

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