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Spring, the most colourful season of the year.

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

Following the coldest winter on record for many years we have been blessed with a beautiful start to Spring, plenty of warm sunshine and clear skies with just sufficient rainfall to give the new growth a vivid fresh and clean appearance.
The Spring colour has been most noticeable this year, firstly with the brilliant white snowdrops [...]

Skull or Fungus?

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Technorati Tags: , fungus, skull

Rare Lichen thought to be extinct is rediscovered

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

Story and Picture courtesy of BBC News.
A rare lichen last seen in Cornwall in 1998, and now though to be extinct, has been discovered on a fallen branch at a location in southern England, the site is being kept a closely guarded secret for now.
The Golden Eye Lichen Teloschistes chrysophthalmus was once a common sight [...]