On Thursday 9 November I joined Joel and Denise, Helene and Dominique to walk 10 kilometres from La Guerche, in the wind and rain. With sheltering from the rain breaks it took two and three quarter hours.
A surveyors' marker on the side of an agricultural track.
False Turkey Tail Stereum hirsutum (Fr. Stérée hirsute) on a fallen birch branch.
A rather rotund solitary sheep sheltering under a solitary pear tree in a field watches us go by.
This is some sort of Agaricus sp mushroom, and I think it might be Great Wood Mushroom A. langeai. Last year I found a single mushroom in this spot, this year it is a colony of tens of mushrooms.
Sheltering from a heavy rain shower at about the halfway mark.
Walking through the forest near Rond du Chene.
A sacred well known as the Fontaine de Prélong. It is a spring protected by a small building made of chunks of flint.
Offerings on the well.
This is a Tremella sp. I assume it is Golden Ear T. aurantia (Fr. Trémelle orangée), as it appears to be feeding off False Turkey Tail.
This is the ancient border between Poitou and Touraine. In the 14th century where I am standing, in Poitou, would have been English territory and across the valley in the distance the Touraine was French.
A big patch of Ivy had been brought down by the recent storms and was blocking the track.
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