David

A gaudy sunset, probably the most vivid one I’ve ever seen, looking over the Exe estuary at Topsham. Pictures taken with a mobile phone camera, so the white balance varies from shot to shot. In my memory, the light was even redder than it appears in any of the pictures in the sequence.

Narcissi with the flowers already open almost a fortnight ago, on the pavement of a quiet residential street.

Scarlet elf cups are fungi which produce their brightly coloured fruiting bodies just about this time of year. I’ve not managed to get out to look for them at any of their usual spots this year for various reasons. So here’s some pictures I took a few years ago.

Under the trees at Bantock Park. near to the flowering crocuses, one of the clumps of snowdrops.

A pair of the mallards on the lake at West Park, still quite early one morning, both asleep.

Yards away from the yellow crocuses in Bantock Park, clumps with purple flowers were not quite as fully open.