David

Compton lock when the trees and towpath were covered with the heavy hoar frost early in December.

Two, or perhaps even three, types of lichen are growing on this branch of a sloe bush. The most leafy of them had a cap of recently fallen snow.

A view along the railway walk with the snow early in December, all looking like it has been designed as a tunnel of trees.

Another view from early December, with the bare trees of Tettenhall ridge looking very strange in the snowy landscape.

These pictures were taken some days after the one above, when most of the snow had disappeared after a brief thaw, then everything got covered in a thick layer of hoar frost when it refroze.

An isolated hawthorn reflected in the freezing Staffs and Worcs canal.