Back to Vyrnwy the woodland nature reserve of the RSPB based around a huge reservoir, where we continue our walk enjoying the sights, scents and sounds of an autumn wood.
We moved on to where the path turns a corner and we cross a tiny stream over a wooden bridge. Today the bridge looked very different. Each side was covered in a growth of ginger brown fungi. We were literally stopped in our tracks in amazement! We had never before seen such a sight and probably never will again.
In the close vicinity the atmosphere was so humid that you could feel the dampness in the air. Moss enjoyed the sauna-like conditions and grew on tree trunks. The trunks dripped with the moss, making them look like little green figures beneath the trees. We continued to find a variety of fungi some of which grew high off the ground. One in particular looked as if a frisbee had been thrown so fiercely that it had dug deep into the tree trunk.
The humidity here, partnered with the bright light creeping through the branches, made the shades of greens and brown glow richly.
The air got damper and the shafts of sunlight lower as we passed this old moss-covered stone wall and reached the lake. We shall find the lake in the third and final part of my First Woodland Walk of Autumn – Part Three.
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Nice to see ‘green.’ 🙂
Beautiful pictures, and the scene at the bridge is amazing! I’ve never run into anything like that before.
The picture of that bridge will stay with us for ever! Malc
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Having a flashback Malc!! Nice seeing brown and green in the middle of winter white. Thank you kindly sir. Margie