Images Dated 13th July 2007

Fly agaric fungi

Fly agaric fungi (Amanita muscaria). The mycelium of the fly agaric fungus shares a symbiotic relationship with spruce, forming a mycorrhizal sheath around the roots of the tree. This is a mutualistic relationship, with the fungus helping its host to extract nutrients and water from the soil, in return for sugars via the plant's photosynthesis. This fungus is hallucinogenic and poisonous. The genus Amanita is recognized by its swollen basal volva and the ring on its stem

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Trawler Boat

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Trawler Boat.
The beach at Dungeness looks like a dumping ground, but geologists are fascinated by the action of wind and tide, on this extreme corner of Kent. Fishermen are here because the sea near the shingle beach is exceptionally deep - some 35 fathoms. It is an amazing place with all manner of abandoned boats and discarded fishing paraphernalia.
David C Dixon
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HELL: SEVEN DEADLY SINS. The lustful are smothered in fire and brimstone as infernal

HELL: SEVEN DEADLY SINS.
The lustful are smothered in fire and brimstone as infernal punishment for one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Woodcut from Le grant kalendrier et compost des Bergiers, Troyes, 1496

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