David

The plane tree (above) and horse chestnut (below) stand next to one another on Newbidge Crescent.

The lichen is growing on the chestnut only from about the level where the trunk divides into boughs.

This heron continued on the lookout for fish and apparently undisturbed when I paused and while I was getting out my camera. Just before I started to raise the camera to my eye, the bird was off.

Narrowboats reflected off a frozen canal in bright winter sunshine.

The view down the bottom two locks of the Stourbridge canal towards the Staffs & Worcs which crosses below.

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.