David

This view looking past the bandstand and over the barely visible boating lake towards the Conservatory was taken at the same time as yesterday’s views.

Another mushroom found growing hiding in the short grass of a roadside lawn.

Looking towards the city centre from behind the West Park chalet on the morning after the first hard frost of the winter earlier this month. These first two pictures were taken about forty minutes before dawn.

I came back about ten minutes later for these pictures.

Behind this small pond on the Dudley nature reserve is a field whose ups and downs are a surviving product of agricultural methods which were superseded several hundred years ago.

I like this metal sculpture of a pike in weeds by the Dock, a side pool part way up Stourbridge locks on the Stourbridge canal.

The sculpture is high on a pole. There is reputed to be a real and big pike lurking in the pool itself.

A little further uphill than the pike in the previous post, there is an equally attractive swan on the nest decorating the finger post.