Author: David

The soft, fluffy-looking catkins beginning to come out in mid-February.

Lichen growing on the quarry face of the former sandstone quarry behind Wightwick Mill lock.

A view further along the bough brought down by a gale already featured in the post yesterday.

Another in the series of lichen on tombstones; these from Beckbury churchyard.

The gales in February brought down a lot of branches. This is the bough of some kind of exotic cedar, which had landed resting on a wall, conveniently at eye level.

This former sandstone quarry is behind Wightwick Mill lock on the Staffs & Worcs canal, in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve.