We walked around the Farlary croft yesterday, meeting not another soul while finding it in the midst of its transition from summer to autumn, so the place was still green with the deciduous trees holding their leaves but chilly in the wind.
The last of the dragonflies, almost exclusively black darters, were few and far between and only on the wing in the brief sunny intervals. This is an unusually all-black male - most have some yellow patches - while....
....this is a female. We were surprised to see them: elsewhere the dragonflies seem to have finished for the year.
Autumn is showing itself in the fungi which, at Farlary at least, look like being every bit as spectacular as last year, so there were plenty of different species to see as well as wide variation within a single species: these are all....
....fly agaric, this one being a good example of the orange colouration while....
....this one would have been perfect for an elf to sit on.
As always, the biggest problem, for people like me who worry about such things, is identifying the species. I don't know what this is called but....
....as we approached the smaller of the two lochans it was in such numbers along the grassy paths that we had to take care not to tread on it.
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