Oh dear ..

... someone will have a tummy ache but it will not be me.

I do not know who ... in fact looking at the teeth marks I do not think I really want to know!

The weather was kinder to us today and so I was working in the garden when I came across this pear. It had been snatched off the tree or was picked up as a windfall but it was definitely not yet ripe. I was quite surprised to see that it had been carried/dragged a long way from the nearest pear tree to be placed on a plank. It was obviously time for a picnic.

Yesterday I posted another blip in what has become my Liverwort series. This little green thallus has grown small 'pockets' called gemma cups, containing tiny oval pieces of its plant tissue. When moisture is present (such as rain drops) these tissue pieces will be floated or bounced out of the cup and dispersed. Vegetative reproduction, such as this, produces identical plants.