David

Plenty of flowers here, but it looks positively restrained compared to the Japanese cherry below.

The almost overpowering profusion of blossom is a clue that this is cultivated.

A few days previously, these had seemed a vivid yellow.

Growing from a small tree stump by the Smestow Valley railway walk. This is the third or fourth type of fungus the stump has supported since the start of 2011.

Supposedly named because it appears on the saint’s day (today)l, but this one was already up right at the start of the month. and crushed within a couple of days because it was too obvious to pedestrians.

Three trees bordering a playing field take on a brooding aspect in a recent early morning mist.

This is white nettle flowering.

This bee seems to be burying itself in the petals of a dandelion.

Thistle growing on the edge of a nettle patch.

This fungus commonly grows, as here, on elders. This one did indeed look like some kind of mammalian appendage.