Category: David

This much photographed bronze statue by Laurence Broderick is in the new Bull Ring centre.

A singing and German-speaking elk head from another of the stalls on the Birmingham Christmas Market. Its repertoire definitely put Billy Bass in the shade.

Dig that crazy beard.

It is pure coincidence that this, like the previous post, features one of the beer stalls on the market.

A stall on Birmingham’s recent German Christmas Market resembling a bear which had consumed plenty of the stock.

The first of a series of off-topic posts over the holiday season.

Old man’s beard with the feathery “hairs” of some seeds whitened even more than normal by a coating of frost.

View over the partly-frozen Birmingham Canal towards the bottom lock.

The trees beyond the bridge are on the far side of the Staffs & Worcs Canal towpath.

These vivid autumnal leaves were on bushes by the lawn at Wightwick Manor.

As so often in the pictures this year, there were the remains of water after recent rain.