A woodland walk on a Saturday autumn afternoon, well its early winter I suppose.
Hard to think it had a snowed on Tuesday, sufficient to bring the city to a full stop.
The temperature high then was a mere 2degrees, brrrr very chilly. But temperatures since then have been balmy, and today we had a high of 14, yesterday was 16 which meant I was decidedly overdressed with anorak and jumper!
These bracket fungi were growing on an earth bank and well hidden from most passers-by. Not surprising really as the mountain bikers who frequent these woods are too intent on keeping upright and generally move at a quicker pace than I do.
With the low sunshine, however, my attention was caught by the straight larch tree trunks. Its clearly a planting of european larch trees, my guess is it was about 70 or 80 years ago when the area was included as part of Dunedin's water-catchment.
Several trees, near the vehicle track, were felled some years ago and their stumps are steadily rotting. providing a habitat for lichens, mosses, and fungi.
