David

View down the flight of locks at Delph, taken from the road bridge at Mill Street, up the hill from the Merry Hill Centre.

A duck had just landed in the top pool, and immediately began to swim away from the centre of the ripples created by its landing.

This honeysuckle was so abundant that it looked like it formed a bush itself.

The elaborate flowers perhaps point to it being an escaped cultivated type, but it was some distance from any garden.

Some of the petals were glowing with the early evening sun behind them, while others were in shade.

The bud has barely begun to open, but already the weather has taken its toll on what will shortly by the tip of the petals.

Taken in the same gentle, diffuse not hugely bright light as the honeysuckle (post above).

These poppies and the field they were in were conveniently at eye level.

A honey bee is visiting the most prominent flower here.

The previous night’s rain seemed to have knocked pollen off and plastered it in clumps along the bottom of the cup formed by the petals.