The so-called Lady Godiva’s Cross by the south wall of Penn Church, with two different kinds of lichens growing on the stonework.
It’s the base of a preaching cross, dating from late Saxon times, rediscovered in 1912. There’s no direct evidence of a connection with Lady Godiva, but it’s plausible. Penn was one of her many manors, and was reputed as a donor to many religious foundations throughout the midlands.
As winter comes on, a monkey puzzle (araucaria) tree in a front garden was covered in what looked like newly emerging flowers.
Puffballs, possibly umber-brown puffballs, growing on a front lawn on a quiet residential street. The hole the spores come out of wide open on most of the balls.
The danger signs around the edge of the lake at West Park are a favoured perching post, here for a black headed gull preening its feathers.
Small mushrooms which were growing through moss and leaf litter in Old Nursery Wood in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve, these jelly babies are not edible, despite the name.
Heron on the lookout, high in a conifer, on the island in West Park. In the picture showing the whole tree, the bird is just about visible in the branches half way up the trunk.