David

The River Avon at Stratford, around dawn at the start of November, with a slight mist adding just the right amount of soft focus to the scene.

River Severn by the Quarry at Shrewsbury, high earlier this month and spreading across the riverside footpath. Pair of swans swimming and preening. Behind them the coppiced willows which normally mark the bank.

Views of the River Teme from Ludford Bridge earlier this month. Horseshoe Weir has the Clee Hills looming in the background.

A spectacular visitor to Perton; a mandarin drake on the smaller pool. I saw it in the middle of the month. A week or so later, I couldn’t see any sign of it.

The Frankfurt Christmas Market has been back in Birmingham, and back with it is the singing elk (or moose, or probably meant to be a reindeer) on one of the glühwein stalls

It wasn’t singing as it swayed its head when I visited. But I had gone on a cold drizzly morning to avoid the crowds. Nice to see it again.

Christmas lights with a difference, on the Morris building by the end of Welsh Bridge in Shrewsbury. I have no idea how they relate to the diverse set of businesses trading under the Morris banner.

They are quite impressive by daylight as was as at night-time.