We have spent the holiday period in Sheffield with Sue's sister Danuta and husband Ken. This has been an annual occasion for some years and I enjoy exploring the natural history of the area. Unfortunately this has been curtailed somewhat by Sue's accident when she tripped and fell in the house, causing severe injury to her left shoulder on the evening of 23rd. The medical services have been exemplary - Ambulance personnel and Northern General staff. Sue had a partial shoulder replacement on Tuesday and has been discharged today, with 6 weeks in a sling to look forward to!
I found fungi in the garden and Endcliffe Park before the calamity.
The sculpture above is one of a series of three created by Sue's father, Jan Kot. When he retired as Sheffield City Architect in the 1970s he took up painting and sculpture. Jan had exhibitions locally and we have a good number of his paintings in our home. The Heads were carved in logs and then cast in aluminium in the 1980s.
Endcliffe Vale Road, December 23 am:
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| bud |
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| Coral fungus, Ramariopsis species |
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| Hairy Curtain Crust, Stereum hirsutum |
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| Hairy Curtain Crust |
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| Hairy Curtain Crust |
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| wreck of the Hallam Towers |
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| Horse Mushroom, Agaricus Impudicus |
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| Horse Mushrooms |
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| Horse Mushroom |
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| Horse Mushrooms |
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| Horse Mushroom |
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| Horse Mushroom |
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| Irish Yellow Slugs, Limacus maculatus |
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| Head 2 by Jan Kot |
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| Lumpy Bracket, Trametes gibbosa |
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| Norway spruce cone, Picea abies |
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| Snowberry, Symphoricarpos albus |
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| Sulphur Tufts, Hypholoma fasciculare |
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| Sulphur Tuft |
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| Sulphur Tufts |
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| Sulphur Tufts |
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| Turkeytail, Trametes versicolor |
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| Turkeytail |
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| Turkeytail |
one from the archives - a magnificent Turkeytail on the lawn a few years ago. There would have been decaying wood under the fungus.
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| White Brain, Exidia thuretiana |
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| White Brain |
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| White Brain |
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| white waxcap Hygrocybe species |
Endcliffe Park December 23 pm:
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| Acer species leaf |
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| Common Woodlouse, Oniscus asellus and Tree Slug, Limax marginatus |
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| Green Elfcup, Chlorociboria aeruginascens agg. |
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| Grey Squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis |
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| Grey Squirrel |
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| Hairy Curtain Crust, Stereum hirsutum |
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| Hairy Curtain Crust |
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| Hairy Curtain Crust |
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| Hairy Curtain Crust |
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| Lumpy Bracket, Trametes gibbosa |
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| Purple Jellydisc asexual form (anamorph), Ascocoryne sarcoides |
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| Turkeytail, Trametes versicolor |
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| Turkeytail |
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