Last night the thermometer in our back garden dropped to zero for the first time this winter yet there was no ice on the puddles nor much frost across the ground - except in this one place where the thistles - if that's what they are - seemed to attract it.
We took ourselves to Drummuie where last night's lingering mist was just being chased from the trees by the first sun of the day, to walk some of the miles of....
....forestry tracks that wind their way up and along the slopes of Beinn Bhraggie, finding little stirring in the way of bird life but, to our considerable surprise, finding....
....more orange peel fungus than we've ever seen before. Usually we come across it in single 'flowers' or small 'bouquets' but this colony stretched for some ten meters along the side of the track....
....as if someone had walked just ahead of us peeling a very large orange.
Last night the thermometer in our back garden dropped to zero for the first time this winter yet there was no ice on the puddles nor much frost across the ground - except in this one place where the thistles - if that's what they are - seemed to attract it.
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