David

These bright mushrooms grow from towards the base of trees.

The pictured specimens were growing on different stumps along the railway walk in the Smestow Valley nature reserve and its continuation into south Staffordshire.

This lichen was growing on the sawn-off top of the trunk.

Moss was covering this and several other bracket fungi on the stump.

This ear fungus was growing on a tree stump near the pools by Donington church. Other growth on the same stump tomorrow and Wednesday.

The oak behind Boscobel House which is claimed to be a descendant of the one where Charles II hid after the Battle of Worcester. From the road the tree does not look likely to last much longer.

One of the first sights on heading for Wolverhampton city centre from the railway station, the Prince Albert is somewhat overshadowed by the bulk of the Chubb Building.