Lots of plants seem to have grown taller than usual this year. That made it easier to get shots looking up from below to these hemlock seed heads in Compton Rough.
Meadow brown butterflies seem to have been present in somewhat larger than usual numbers this summer (the other types of browns, the opposite …). Here are two which were feeding on thistle flowers in the verge of a country road on the outskirts of Codsall.