Today in pictures

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by mobertol

Have had a bit of a magic mushroom day Spotted some on a verge near home and found loads of different kinds when I went to investigate. I think Dave would have been in his element. One of them is a stinkhorn - very strange, I found the "egg" first and then moving the grass nearby the full fungus revealed itself - impudent thing I have never seen anything quite like it o.O

Oh well done Dianne! You really got up close and personal with these mushies

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by gpick24

Today I went to see Donnas Nook (she wouldn`t show me her cranny)
Donna Nook National Nature Reserve | Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust
on the way there I went past RAF Waddington.

1. Surprised how close this is kept to the road.
2. First Seal pup.
3. Keeping cool.
4. Having a cuddle.
5-7. Guessing this one hasn`t been born long, still has part of it`s umbilical cord.
8. With mum.
9. Two mums arguing.
10. Yet another pup.

Wow! Beautifully captured

[davemac]

Originally Posted by mobertol

Have had a bit of a magic mushroom day Spotted some on a verge near home and found loads of different kinds when I went to investigate. I think Dave would have been in his element. One of them is a stinkhorn - very strange, I found the "egg" first and then moving the grass nearby the full fungus revealed itself - impudent thing I have never seen anything quite like it o.O

That's a collection of interesting fungi, some I have not seen before, you have uncovered more than my fungi detector could manage.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by gpick24

Today I went to see Donnas Nook (she wouldn`t show me her cranny)
Donna Nook National Nature Reserve | Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust
on the way there I went past RAF Waddington.

1. Surprised how close this is kept to the road.
2. First Seal pup.
3. Keeping cool.
4. Having a cuddle.
5-7. Guessing this one hasn`t been born long, still has part of it`s umbilical cord.
8. With mum.
9. Two mums arguing.
10. Yet another pup.

Am interesting departure from our usual piccies

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by gpick24

Today I went to see Donnas Nook (she wouldn`t show me her cranny)
Donna Nook National Nature Reserve | Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust
on the way there I went past RAF Waddington.

1. Surprised how close this is kept to the road.
2. First Seal pup.
3. Keeping cool.
4. Having a cuddle.
5-7. Guessing this one hasn`t been born long, still has part of it`s umbilical cord.
8. With mum.
9. Two mums arguing.
10. Yet another pup.

Number 8 catches a real bonding moment but I love 3 (comic) and 4 (very human) too! Lovely photos. They took me back to when aged 12 we visited a seal sanctuary down in Cornwall - I bought a cuddly toy seal which stayed on my bed until the day I got married! Knowing my mum it probably disappeaed soon after in one of her famous clear-outs.

[davemac]

Today in Pictures, a tootle around Spring Wood.

1. If your gonna have a photo of fungi, its good to start with a big-un.
2. And then one that's hiding.
3. Its the same every year, you just get used to seeing them green and up a tree, then in a flash they are brown and on the ground.
4. Its very peaceful, you would hardly know its so close to Accrington Road.
5. The carpet of leaves appears to go on forever.
6. Looking over the top of Whalley toward Longridge Fell.
7. A cheeky little fungi showing its gills.
8. Another view of Whalley, well sort of.
9. We are trundling down the other side now.
10. And almost back at the car park.

[mobertol]

Spring wood looks just as lovely in autumn!

[davemac]

Originally Posted by mobertol

Spring wood looks just as lovely in autumn!

I was surprised just how brown certain sections of the woods were, although fungi were in short supply as against other years.

[mobertol]

The calm after the storms that have been battering us recently. It was a lovely sunny day perfect for going into Cremona for the start of the annual nougat festival (Festa del Torrone) - lots of lovely sweet things to taste and buy!

In the last two photos the giant violin and the book of music are made out of nougat.

[Eric]

A bunch of snow pics ... yes, it's here ... and one for Turtle. Oh ... and my taxi.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by mobertol

The calm after the storms that have been battering us recently. It was a lovely sunny day perfect for going into Cremona for the start of the annual nougat festival (Festa del Torrone) - lots of lovely sweet things to taste and buy!

In the last two photos the giant violin and the book of music are made out of nougat.

Ooh...I wish I had a teleporter. I would say 'beam me up Scottie' and I would be there in a tick...take my pictures then back home to my own bed.
Dianne I would have been like a dog at a fair.....lovely pics and they give a real feel of the place.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Ooh...I wish I had a teleporter. I would say 'beam me up Scottie' and I would be there in a tick.

The way those transporters work in the movies, you might end up here with a snow shovel in your hand.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by mobertol

The calm after the storms that have been battering us recently. It was a lovely sunny day perfect for going into Cremona for the start of the annual nougat festival (Festa del Torrone) - lots of lovely sweet things to taste and buy!

In the last two photos the giant violin and the book of music are made out of nougat.

I did check the date to see if it was April 1st.... Nougat festival...........? Brilliant festival though, and interesting photos.

[davemac]

Today in Pictures, a mash up of two days, one in Memorial park, the second, today, Milnshaw Park.

1. You just know at some stage you are going to get wet.
2. A little woods off to the right.
3. No one around, so down on the floor, well I thought there was no one around, there was.
4. Heading back out to the open spaces.
5. And here it is, looking down the park.
6. Hagg Lodge, I never walk past without taking a reflective shot.
7. Looking over the top of the bowling green, in the distance the turbines.
8. A trunk full of Trametes.
9. Another day at the Beech.
10. And finally back at Hagg Lodge.

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by davemac

I did check the date to see if it was April 1st.... Nougat festival...........? Brilliant festival though, and interesting photos.

Cremona is famous for it's nougat production Dave and claims to be the place where it was invented - along with Montelimar in France!

"Cremona, 25th of October 1441: Bianca Maria Visconti married Francesco Sforza. The wedding, which allowed Sforza family to dominate the Duchy of Milan for over half a century, is strictly related to the birth of nougat. According to the legend nougat was made for the first time in occasion of the wedding feast and it had the shape of the Torrazzo, the bell tower of Cremona cathedral. It can be stated that “torrone”, the Italian word for nougat, etymologically derives from “Torrazzo”."

The festival will finish next Sunday with a re-evocation of Bianca-Maria's wedding in the cathedral sqaure -I hope to go along to see it and get a few more pics!