Walking From Le Grand Pressigny

On Thursday 7 December I joined Joel and Denise, Dominique, Martine and Danielle, Tilly and Helene for a 10.5 kilometre walk from Le Grand Pressigny. We went out via Courvaulx, up to the Chateau de Vienne, through fields and forest, then back along the voie verte (greenway) from Etableau. It took us two and a half hours with photo stops.

 

This parcel was pasture a few decades ago.  It is slowly regenerating into forest.

 

Trooping Funnel mushrooms Clitocybe geotropa (Fr. Tête-de-moine) doing their thing through a hedge.

 

Dominique and Joel raiding a holly tree with berries for Christmas decorations.

 

One of the male ferns Dryopteris sp.

 

Salmon Coral fungus Ramaria formosa (Fr. Clavaire jolie) is an uncommon species found in European beech forests. You can also see blue staining in the log from another fungus, Chlorociboria aeruginescens.

 

A wicker basket weaver's workshop.