David

O.K., not actually the (only) real goal, but the Mermaid was a very welcome refuge from an unexpected April shower.

A bank of white violets last month.

A spring sunrise reflected in the windows of a particularly stark concrete building on Wolverhampton College’s Paget Road site.

A largish mushroom whose fruiting body appears in the spring – supposedly on St George’s day (which is today), though that sounds to me like the type of conceit perpetrated by Victorian gentlemen naturalists.

This one was actually pictured two days ago growing at the edge of a garden. Several others could just about be made out a few inches away, almost hidden by the greenery.

The tree stump gives some idea of the size of the mushroom’s cap.

From a bush by one of the entrances to West Park, pictured before the bad weather at Easter.

A very ancient type of plant, non-flowering because they evolved before there were insects to help in pollination. Most (British) coal is the fossilised remains of members of this family, including species which were as big as trees.