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Swan (Christmas lights, Stratford on Avon)

A very brief video clip of one of the Christmas lights displays at Stratford on Avon this year: a swan, formed from LEDs, atop a fountain also composed of LEDs.

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Plants, Stratford Butterfly Farm

Plants, Stratford Butterfly Farm

The vegetation in the hothouse at the Stratforn on Avon Butterfly Farm is, like the insects themselves, tropical. Occasionally I dragged my attention from the butterflies, constantly moving as well as brightly coloured, to a few of the flowers and fruits.

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Butterflies, Stratford Butterfly Farm, First Batch

Butterflies, Stratford Butterfly Farm, First Batch

A visit to the Butterfly Farm at Stratford on Avon over the Christmas period, where I went rather wild taking pictures with a camera phone. Lots of snaps, so I’m posting them in several batches. Here’s the first.

Probably my favourite is the one with the transparent panel in its wings. By coincidence, it was the first one I got a shot at.

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Black woodwart, West Park

Black woodwart, West Park

Black woodwart, a dark fungus lying prone on a dead tree in West Park, easy to overlook.

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Lone redlead roundhead mushroom

Lone redlead roundhead mushroom

A lone redlead roundhead mushroom growing on wood mulch in a front garden. The pictures date back to last November. Very few mushrooms can survive freezing weather. This is not one which can.

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Camelia flowers on a frosty morning

Camelia flowers on a frosty morning

Camelia flowers in a front garden, seen on one of the mornings when it was starting to be frosty early last month.. The even colder nights a few days later finished off the flowers.