October Visit to Herefordshire - Part 1: Hatfield and Fly Agaric

 

Last week we finally managed to return to Herefordshire for four nights.

We went on the Tuesday and in the evening went for a lovely meal at the Fountain Inn as it was our wedding anniversary.

The Herefordshire Oak - definite signs of autumn tints in the leaves now.

There is not much change in the Constable Tree or the

Octopus Tree although you can see the latter more clearly now than you could a few months ago.

The copse and golden yellow leaves on the aspens.

D's rubeckias are still flowering well.

There are hawthorn berries galore. Hopefully, we will see Redwings feasting on them on a future visit.  Redwings seem to be arriving in the country at the moment.

I brought D's chilli  pepper plant home with us. He will freeze the ripe chillis and try and overwinter the plant for next year.

The garden

These are the first apples (it is a cooking apple that is sweeter than a Bramley) we picked.  Before we left we harvested them all and brought them  home in a large bag.

On the Wednesday we went into Tenbury Wells to buy petrol, bird food and do some shopping at Tesco.

The River Teme

Ivy flowers and some berries forming.

Ash keys

Back at home we have a Fly Agaric in the garden.  We have a lot of silver birch trees and the trees and toadstool have a symbiotic relationship. Fly Agaric have mycorrhizal relationships with silver birches and other trees. Warning! Not to be eaten!

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On the Friday I visited nearby St Leonard's church which was holding a Harvest Festival and I will write about that in my next post.

I am sorry for lack of blog posts recently. To be honest I haven't been out much and have had little to blog about and I am still not getting much sleep. In addition B has had a lot of hospital appointments recently. On top of that the shower has decided to pack up!  It is under guarantee as it was bought only 8 months ago. Rather than replacing it we are having to put up with an engineer visit later this week which means tidying the bathroom and clearing out the airing cupboard :(

Photos taken by me with the Panasonic Lumix FZ330 bridge camera and the photo labelled D was taken by my son with the Canon SX50HS bridge camera. (I don't particularly rate my photos but if anyone wishes to use one of mine or my son's I would be grateful for an email first - thanks).