While walking in Dunrobin Woods on Wednesday morning, mostly to avoid battling with the southeasterly wind which remained as fierce as it was the previous day, we noticed how the mosses in the bright green of the ground cover seem, like the lianas of the tropical rainforest, to be fighting to....
....reach the light, using the rotten stumps of fallen trees as ladders upwards. There are plenty of these living mounds of moss, not least because there are plenty of fallen trees, whose rotting trunks and branches also give encouragement to....
....the few fungi that are 'flowering' at this time of year. This might be conifer mazegill, growing on silver birch, while....
....this may be hairy curtain crust. I like the way it folds itself across the rotten branch, as if it's very tired.
Then there was this beauty, caught in the light, growing exactly where it did this time last year but, just like then, I've not been able to identify it.
The only other excitement was provided by this mould, perhaps wolf's milk slime, though with each mass only a centimetre in diameter, we were lucky to spot it.
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