Continuing with the fungi theme, I found this fairy-tale specimen in a forest in Wales.
We’ve been away for a weeks holiday and very nice it was too (that’s is the holiday was nice, the weather could have been kinder). I’d like to tell you I toiled for hours through the forest to find such a handsome specimen, but I’d be lying, I found it in the car-park whilst Joe and I were waiting,
for Mr Uphilldowndale and Tom to return from a mountain bike excursion on the Marin Trail in the Gwydyr Forest. It was growing from the trunk of a birch tree. I used to know someone who made birch sap wine, and from what I can remember (the memory is a little hazy) the brew was as potent as I suspect this toadstool is (I’ll not try to name the species, I’ll hope a fungi expert passes by the blog with the appropriate knowledge.)
Would you like to see how muddy Tom was on his return?
You can visualise the dirty washing that has returned home with us can’t you?
October 22, 2011 at 10:20 pm
Love the photos!
October 22, 2011 at 10:41 pm
Your picture of Tom’s knees makes me more certain than ever that my decision never to go biking through puddles and down down bumpy tracks is a really good one.
October 23, 2011 at 6:26 am
Here is the post on Google+:
https://plus.google.com/100146646232137568790/posts/Eu4hjyA79e5
October 23, 2011 at 10:51 am
That toadstool should have a wee gnome sitting on it, fishing rod in hand.
October 24, 2011 at 12:13 am
Sometimes the best motives are closest to you
– and those legs seem to have had good experience!
October 24, 2011 at 8:07 pm
How come the bottom of his legs are so dirty but his knees are clean?
October 24, 2011 at 9:27 pm
He was wearing lycra legging things, he rolled them back to show the clean and the dirty. I know usually it is boys knees that are grubby!!
October 25, 2011 at 12:47 am
Visualize the dirty washing? I can smell it! But isn’t it a wonderful thing to splash around in mud and bright red fungi in birch woods? It is.