Early autumn, close up

 Although there's no heatwave going on, the skies can still bring delight when the clouds part. Autumn is most definitely here. This morning started off foggy and damp but the sun managed an appearance, although the temperature failed to break any records, peaking at around 16°C in the mid-afternoon.

Below: a colony of honey fungus (Armillaria mellea, opieńka miodowa). Edible if cooked thoroughly, though I wouldn't chance it.

Below: dew on a cobweb. The whole thing was shimmering in the breeze. Long exposure.

Below: fly agaric mushroom, Amanita muscaria, muchomor czerwony. Do not eat! Toxic!

Below: a group of shaggy ink cap mushrooms (Coprinus comatus, czernidłak kołpakowaty). Various sources online suggests the species is edible; I'll steer clear, thank you.

Below: on the underside of leaves of an oak sapling, four gall apples. These are induced by gall wasps, which lay single eggs in developing leaf buds. The larva's secretions modify the oak bud into the gall, a structure that protects the larva until it metamorphises into an adult wasp.

Below: I pull apart an oak apple to find, as expected, the larva of a gall wasp wriggling around inside.

Below: under a canopy of maple leaves on the footpath running along the border between Machcin II and Gaj Żelechowski.

Below: not a close up, but a photograph from today's walk that I just had to post. New house on the edge of Kozłów. The sky, the clouds, the trees, the house, spark one of those exomnesia flashback anomalous qualia memories. I saw this scene in a book or magazine as a child and I immediately recognised it as familiar, though not from my life. Fractal patterns in time?

This time last year:
Last hot day of the year?
[23°C then, a mere 16°C today]

This time seven years ago:
Warszawa Zachodnia Peron 8 to reopen
[The north entrance to the station, since renamed W-wa Zachodnia Peron 9, was finally opened last month]

This time eight years ago:

Learning to fly (swan pics)

This time 10 years ago:
Scotland's answer to the Hoover Building

This time 12 years ago:
In which I don't vote in the mayoral referendum, thus helping to save HG-W's job

This time 13 years ago:
Gorgeous cars from Czechoslovakia

This time 14 years ago:
Donald Tusk and Co. get re-elected 

This time 15 years ago:
Poland's wonderful bread

This time 16 years ago:
An October Friday in Warsaw