Monday Montage

Last week's WidsMob Montage modified photo was



which Ragged Robin and Wilma correctly deduced was a photo of



one of my Chinese Lantern plants.
My thanks to all who had a go.

For this week's montage cast your eyes over



which I think should be easier to identify.

If you want to have a go at guessing what it is - please leave your guess in the comments.
They will be revealed, along with the original photo, next Monday.

Colourful Brackets

Bracket fungi that is.
I noticed these on yesterday's early morning perambulation but had forgotten my camera.
Anyway I remembered this morning



A couple of magnificent looking bracket fungi



These were large. Probably over 12 inches (30cm) across and beautifully marked.
I tried to identify them. Looked at hundreds of photos.
The only two I found which looked like a good match were unnamed.

That Nikon pocket camera has really worked hard. Approaching 9000 photos taken.

Identification solved thanks to Adrian of Adrian's Images.
A  Polyporus squamosus

Cold, Wet and Cloudy

A bit nippy round the extremities on our early morning walkabout.
It was all of 6.5C and still damp after an earlier shower.
So much for the days planned activity of mowing my lawn.
Cutting longish wet grass uses up the mower's batteries much faster.
The situation was made worse by a couple more showers during the day.

We managed to dodge them for our mid afternoon walk.
By the look of the distant clouds we were just missing more rain







One bright note was a little flower skulking under my front hedge



No idea what it is or how it got there.

Top temperature today was 16.2C but as I write this it is diving down to single figures again.

Signs of Autumn

Now we are in the Meteorological Autumn the dewy mornings are making all the spiders' webs in my lawn stand out

What Does a Dog Have To Do ....

.... to get its share of that jam tart he's scoffing?

I'll try my 'have pity on a hard done by dog' look

Unidentified Bug

Just about to drop some items in our recycle bin when I spotted this minibeast



Body length about 7mm

It even let me take a bit of video



Spent quite a while looking at scores of pictures trying to identify it.
Is it an instar of some shieldbug?

Another view



If any visitor could help with the identification that would be brilliant.

Monday Montage

Here we are again. Another week flown by.
Last week's WidsMob Montage modified photo



was correctly identified by Ragged Robin, The Weaver and Wilma as



an apple. Hard luck Adrian. Should have stayed with your first thought.

It is actually a blood apple. The type which has red flesh as well as skin



There is a tree not far away which overhangs the footpath. It always drops dozens of windfalls each year. What has fallen so far this year are not fully ripe and all seem to have a type of end blossom rot. They are as hard as nails to cut through. I have never got round to tasting one.

For this week's modified photo, something from my own garden



If you think you know or would like to guess what it is please leave your guess in the comments.
They will be revealed, along with the original photo, next Monday.