Category: David

Frost outlining the leaves of a delicate ivy.

The combination of icicles and flowing water is not as dramatic as in wintery mountain waterfalls, but I still find it appealing.

Some sections of the Staffs and Worcs canal are cut into sandstone, giving the appearance of cliffs forming the bank opposite the tow path. This picture was taken with my back towards the aqueduct where the canal crosses the river Stour. The brightly lit rock face is reflected in a then frozen canal. There is an intriguing black-painted door in the rock face at water level.

The winged seeds of an ash.

Bracket fungus growing on a fallen tree trunk by the railway walk in Smestow Valley.

“When gorse is out of bloom, kissing is out of season.” This gorse was flowering before the end of January.