Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Trees, upright and horizontal (with fungus)

Trees are impressive things, and this one is no exception.



Ok, my title wasn't quite right, as this is actually a stump, but it did used to be a tree. Impressively frilly fungus, I thought.



And here is a proper horizontal ex-tree, doing its part for the cycle of life, or whatever.



These bracket fungi look almost like pieces of agate, with all those strata.



I wanted to end on a more positive note (for the trees, anyway), so here is a very badly taken photo of a snowdrop, which accidentally turned out as a photo I quite like. I know, it is all at a funny angle, and my OH did try to explain the process of doing this correctly, but I still like it :-)

2 comments:

talj said...

Lovely set of shots! There is some great detail in the fungus (?) and although its yukky stuff its quite interesting to see the colours and patterns it makes! :o)

mrsnesbitt said...

So dramatic!
Fantastic!
Dx