Mushroom Hunt: Blusher.

From Charly, who notes: My favourite edible mushroom, unfortunately often spoiled and worm ridden. A folk name for it is “masák” which could be translated as “fleshy/meaty mushroom” due both its color and taste. Click for full size!

Click Beetles.

From Charly, click for full size!

Detritus.

A very old shed and trailer on the edge of the field across from us were recently destroyed, repeatedly pounded into the earth. All those remnants of people, memories, laughter, tears, work, gone. It brought melancholy on, considering it, but this is the oblivion we are all assigned to, eventually. There’s a bunch, so most under the fold. The odd leather thing is a sheath, for scissors, I think. I rescued it, made me too sad to leave it. Click for full size.

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The Daily Bird #458.

Beautiful Seagulls from David, click for full size! We have seagulls here, but I am never successful at getting photos.

Umber Brown Puffball.

From Charly, click for full size! Spectacular.

Speckled Wood.

From Charly, click for full size!

The Daily Bird #457.

From Raucous Indignation, an Irish Gull, click for full size!

Small Skipper.

A tiny butterfly on a tiny flower, from Charly, click for full size!

Tears of the Mushroom.

Discworld fans will recognize the title, and it’s apt. From Charly, who notes: I do not think this is dew, I think they come out of the Conk itself. Exquisite photos, click for full size!