Shroom on top

An overblown wax cap hosts a tiny fly. The insect silhouetted  against the fungal expanse reminded me of the famous painting by Caspar David Friedrich Wanderer above a sea of fog. 
In fact we have had no fog at all but the fine weather has now broken after a day of such tranquillity that the sea appeared not simply flat calm but planed, sanded and polished to a pearly sheen.

Wax caps are sometimes described as the orchids of the fungus world. They are small, delicate, often brightly coloured and highly sensitive to their environment. They grow exclusively in unimproved grassland kept short by grazing or mowing and are thus often to be found on old lawns, churchyards and short-cropped pasture that has not been fertilized or ploughed.