Category: David

River Severn by the Quarry at Shrewsbury, high earlier this month and spreading across the riverside footpath. Pair of swans swimming and preening. Behind them the coppiced willows which normally mark the bank.

Views of the River Teme from Ludford Bridge earlier this month. Horseshoe Weir has the Clee Hills looming in the background.

A spectacular visitor to Perton; a mandarin drake on the smaller pool. I saw it in the middle of the month. A week or so later, I couldn’t see any sign of it.

The Frankfurt Christmas Market has been back in Birmingham, and back with it is the singing elk (or moose, or probably meant to be a reindeer) on one of the glühwein stalls

It wasn’t singing as it swayed its head when I visited. But I had gone on a cold drizzly morning to avoid the crowds. Nice to see it again.

Christmas lights with a difference, on the Morris building by the end of Welsh Bridge in Shrewsbury. I have no idea how they relate to the diverse set of businesses trading under the Morris banner.

They are quite impressive by daylight as was as at night-time.

Something a little different for Christmas Day, once again. Graffiti of a heron with a fish in its beak, low on the wall of one of the houses on Temeside, by the River Teme in Ludlow. Often visible for real just a few minutes walk by the river.

The BT boxes (I guess) in Shrewsbury have each had an individual painting, perhaps meant to be on a theme of evolution. This one, by English Bridge, is a sight which sadly cant’ be seen for real.