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Yellow, blue: ripening crab apples

Autumn colours: yellow crab apples

Yellow crab apples as they ripen, seen against the blue sky of a sunny morning.

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Comma on the ground

Comma on the ground

Comma butterfly on a patch of bare soil, warming up in the morning sun about a month ago.

Comma on the ground

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Sweet chestnuts, on and off the tree

Sweet chestnut

Not conkers, but sweet chestnuts (the tree is also known as Spanish chestnut). The edible kind, though the fallen one was to small to be worth the bother.

Cluster of sweet chestnuts

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Smestow Brook from Hordern Road

Smestow Brook from Hordern Road

Smestow Brook firmly culverted as it heads downstream after going under Hordern Road.

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Tulip tree details

Tulip tree detail

Flower bud and leaf from a tulip tree in the garden of Wightwick Manor.

Tulip tree detail

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Growing down and out

Growing down and out

Mushroom growing from the end of a fallen tree trunk. The bend in the stem might have been caused by the trunk moving after the fungus started to grow.