David

Lichens in Pattingham churchyard.

These gravestones were pictured on the same day as those in Enville churchyard, posted on Wednesday.

Highgate Common looking stark a month ago.

Snowdrop on roadside rough ground near Smestow in early February.

Pictured last month in Beckbury churchyard.

These gravestones, with their well-established lichens, are in Enville churchyard.

The plane tree (above) and horse chestnut (below) stand next to one another on Newbidge Crescent.

The lichen is growing on the chestnut only from about the level where the trunk divides into boughs.

This heron continued on the lookout for fish and apparently undisturbed when I paused and while I was getting out my camera. Just before I started to raise the camera to my eye, the bird was off.

Narrowboats reflected off a frozen canal in bright winter sunshine.

The view down the bottom two locks of the Stourbridge canal towards the Staffs & Worcs which crosses below.