Mushrooms.

Yesterday, while walking with Herself, I noticed this clump of fungi. It was while I was filing this picture away in the appropriate folder “Pictures/Nature/Funghi” that I noticed, not only the spelling mistake (now corrected) but that I had photographed it last September.
 
I have absolutely no recollection of having seen them before, or of slithering down the bank to them. There are now more of them, there’s more moss and snow; but someone has cleaned the cobwebs off them so that there are now a few tiny beetles who have happily, like the North Sea fish, taken up residence.