Autumn is coming

Mushrooms snapped in Meadway yesterday morning.

There is another clutch behind the log roll, one representative just visible right.

I don't know what they are feeding on, perhaps the rotting roots of a chestnut tree which preceded the birch on this spot - with the row of chestnut trees down this road gradually thinning out. The birch tree, after a shaky start during which it leaned right out over the road, seems healthy enough. And while the log roll holds spring flowers, it is really a device for keeping the council strimmers off the base of the tree. Strimmers, as has been noticed before, might just be a bit of rotating plastic, but they can do a lot of damage. See, for example, reference 1 for damage and reference 2 for strimmer cogitations more generally.

PS: with reference 1 also illustrating what happens if you forget to give a post a title before you post it - with the post being given a name, taken from the first line of your text, which you are stuck with for ever.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/a-snap-taken-this-morning-somewhere-on.html.

Reference 2: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/long-grove-park.html. With the banks here illustrated presently looking OK, two years on.