David

One of the flowers on a fuchsia: this one was on the wall of a house on one of the streets by West Park.

West Park as a late September dawn approaches: the Conservatory.

Looking across the boating lake towards the bridge and the sun rising behind the island.

Finally, the Bandstand.

Crab apples ripening on a tree by the stream up close to Himley Hall.

Brown birch boletes are mushrooms with pores rather than gills for shedding their spores. These, growing in the same place, show the range of shades of brown in the caps.

I had noticed them in the same area in 2009 and again in 2011.

Here is one which someone had kindly kicked over, allowing a clearer view of the stem and the pores.

Brown roll-rims are mushrooms which grow in association with various species of deciduous trees. This was one of a small group growing under a lime on a lawn in Tettenhall.

Seventeenth century dovecote, originally part of Barnhurst Farm, with one of the local erratics in front of it.

The building, now in the middle of the Pendeford Estate, was one of those opened during last month’s Heritage Open Days.