David

Growing right by the umbellifers pictured on the 14th.

During the snowy spell, the ivy berries I saw were either covered only by a small cap of snow, as here, or completely hidden in a blanket of white.

The lock icing up just before Christmas.

From the tree by Compton lock.

Fruits on the same tree were pictured sprinkled with frost in an earlier post.

Another episode in what has turned out to be a series recording the changing appearance this year of berries on the sloe bushes between the Railway Walk and Barley Field in the Smestow Valley Nature Conservation area.

These pictures were all taken in the field just behind Compton Lock a couple of days before Christmas.