Trolley 736

Captured when I took a wrong turning behind Sainsbury's at Kiln Lane. A long time since I had been around the back. Odd place to leave a trolley: cul-de-sacs full of businesses and no residential at all - at least as far as I knew. Perhaps it was a left over from some Sainsbury's alcohol fuelled office party, remarks about same at the end of reference 2 notwithstanding.

Returned to the stacks by the front entrance to the store, with that area all being rather cluttered up by the refurbishment.

The day (Tuesday) had started with the disposal of the mushrooms gathered from a small patch on the back of the back lawn the day before. There were a lot of them, and I had only gathered a small fraction. No idea what prompted them, although there is a fair amount of dead wood in the young but tall ash tree just beyond.

In the field - that is to say on the lawn - I had thought three sorts: mostly pale brown, a few dark brown and a few white. Of which the dark browns seems to have got lost in the snap above. Still have two whites. I associate this morning to the 2021 vintage, noticed at references 3 and 4.

I had thought to dry them in the oven and see what happened - not to eat them - but in the end did not get around to it.

Then beyond the main entrance to Sainsbury's, a miscellaneous pile of flatpack shelving out in the weather. Shopfitters have to cope with the stuff too.

Then on the banks of the stream running down Longmead Road, some white dead nettles having a second go. Nothing like as prominent as they had been the day before.

And the telephone failed on the close-up test. Perhaps it thought I was more into leaves than flowers. Maybe I should have tapped the relevant part of the screen before snapping. But why are the colours quite different? Clearly quite unreliable.

And then, if you click to enlarge, short white hairs around the periphery of the flowers. Real hairs or imaging artefact? Are the flowers of dead nettles really hairy? Turning to Bentham & Hooker, I read that the flower of Lamium album does indeed have a ring of  hairs inside, but it says nothing about hairs on the outside. Evidence of a sort for artefact.

Out again in the afternoon, getting on for dusk now that the clocks have moved. A clump of bushes and small trees that was full of chirping and cheeping, presumably a flock of sparrows. They sometimes seem to exhibit this kind of flocking behaviour, with hundreds of them in the flocks. And while sparrows are quite rare in our garden, I have seen more sparrows this year than I have seen for a while. Perhaps it is a good year for them.

I associate to the first time we came across such a tree, in an unsavoury part of Wood Green, next to a yard containing a tethered and unfed dog. Not an animal one would want to mess with - without some suitable weapon that is.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/10/trolley-735.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/10/denham-one.html.

Reference 3: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2021/10/livestock.html.

Reference 4: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2021/07/monster-mushrooms.html.

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