Cloudy and dull.
A common, but unidentified, Mycena growing on wood. Maybe it's just a small M. galericulata: the stiff stipe is right.
Even in the dead of winter (or perhaps because of it) I'm still finding new species. This fungal rust is Milesina scolopendrii, which according to the Ellis and Ellis reference grows only on 'sterile shoots'. This puzzled me, since it doesn't make sense that something would evolve to grow on a substrate that was essentially a dead-end, so I went back to investigate. Yes, it grows on sterile shoots (the one photographed had no spores at all), but I also found it growing on the sterile parts of partly-fertile shoots. So a little refinement, there. That makes more sense, so I'm happy.
An undershot of Mycena galericulata.
Ochrolechia parella, a very comon lichen on the local walls.
Common Field Speedwell - Veronica persica - is probably in flower all year round.
Rustyback always looks good at this time of year, probably because other growth has died back and left it exposed. The second image is a close-up of the fertile underside of the leaf.
Tubaria furfuracea is a very common wood-growing fungus growing on a dead twig.
And this shot shows the inter attachment point and the pale grey mycelium.
