David

I was struck by the paint of the industrial building, reflected in the canal, looked like a too-perfect blue sky on what was actually a gloomy grey day.

The picture was taken with my back to the remnant of the Bradley Arm which goes off from the main line here. The Arm, currently a dead end, was Brindley’s original line of the canal.

Snowdrops, and purple crocuses somewhat further away, taken a few days ago.

A pair of swans feeding by a reed bed on the Birmingham canal in Deepfields. The traffic on the bridge carrying the Black Country Route was rumbling nearby.

This hawthorn, growing by the side of the Staffs & Worcs canal near Compton, is shaped as formerly part of a waterside hedge.

This appears to be a ball of moss growing on a hawthorn bush. Is it a birds’ nest?