David

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.

This clump of mushrooms had skins which were almost the same colour as chocolate.

They were growing on an island in the middle of a road.

Two narrowboats moored near Compton Lock on a frosty morning recently.

Mastadon, though not the Santas on its roof, can just about be seen behind the boat with the penguin figurehead and shark decoration.