I had a lovely walk, 8 or so miles, starting from Llyn Brianne reservoir. From craggy moorland down into a beautiful wooded
valley following the rivers Doethie and Tywi, and back through the wooded Dinas Hill nature reserve. Lots of birds and lambs (more pics to follow), and lovely views.

#walking #cymru

Bridge Street, Abingdon, Berkshire, c.1955 - Frith's RP Postcard

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#Abingdon

Blick auf die Schwyzer und Glarneralpen, Rigi Kulm, c.1905-10 - Franz Beeler AK

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Cortinarius marylandensis

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Cortinarius_marylandensis.html

Ecology: Mycorrhizal with hardwoods—primarily with beech and oaks; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously; summer and early fall; originally described from Florida, and fairly widely distributed in eastern North America from there to Delaware and Texas, but apparently absent or rare in the upper Midwest; also recently reported from Costa Rica. The illustrated and described collection is from Missouri.

Cap: 1-4 cm; convex or bell-shaped at first, becoming broadly bell-shaped, convex, or nearly flat; dry; silky to finely hairy; bright brick red to brownish red, often fading markedly to pale reddish brown; the margin not lined.

Gills: Attached to the stem; close; colored like the cap, becoming cinnamon to rusty red; short-gills frequent; when young covered by a pinkish to red cortina.

Stem: 2-5 cm long; 0.5-1 cm thick; more or less equal; dry; silky; pale reddish above, colored like the cap below; often darkening to reddish brown near the base or when handled; sometimes with a rusty ring zone; basal mycelium pinkish when fresh.

Flesh: Whitish to pale pinkish in cap and upper stem; reddish to brownish in the stem base; unchanging when sliced.

Odor: Radishlike, or not distinctive.

Chemical Reactions: KOH on cap surface red to purple or black.

Spore Print: Rusty brown.

Microscopic Features: Spores 6-8 x 3.5-4 m; ellipsoid or subamygdaliform; finely verrucose. Basidia 25-28 x 5-6 m; subclavate; 4-sterigmate. Hymenial cystidia not found. Pileipellis a cutis; elements 5-15 m wide, smooth, hyaline to red-walled in KOH, clamped at septa. Contextual and lamellar elements pinkish purple to purplish red in KOH.

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High Street, Clovelly, Devon, c.1930 - Postcard

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