Author: David

Leaves edged with what will hopefully be one of the last frosts of the season.

Ivy fruit looking purple in bright, early spring sunshine. More often the fruit look black.

An old, dead oak stands stark even when compared to the denuded but living trees behind it.

A patch of snowdrops growing by one of the canals. Below is a closer view of another clump which was growing by the towpath.

Mosses and lichens growing on the trunk of a tree in Valley Park.

Like a squirrel’s dray, this looks like an untidy pile of twigs high in the branches. It appears to be about the same size as well, but can be distinguished by being roughly spherical.