Seen in November

Walls catch the eye more in November as competition declines. Ivy is prominent as are mosses, ferns and liverwort. Elder remains a source of edibles with still some elderberry around beside the stream near Shorts Lane, and also Jew’s Ear fungus often found on elder.

Bracken’s visual appeal enhances in autumn colouring and is at its most striking here as it creates a hanging garden climbing among the Hawthorn.
Blazes of young beech are a feature of wilder woods, worth waiting for a shaft of sun to pick them out. One from the afternoon in the shade below
and one earlier just after sunrise.

Further up the lane Comfrey flowers over the wall.