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Blewitt mushrooms in a grassy meadow, seen in a dry interval during a rainy morning.

A muddy and well-filled River Sow not far from Stafford city centre recently.

Mulberry trees in the middle of two of the Shakespearean properties in Stratford on Avon. The one in Hall’s Croft, seen after snow, looks much more ancient than the much propped on in New Place.

Oyster fungus growing around a tree stump, the edges well-nibbled by one or more of the local denizens.

Snowdrops from one clump under the trees of Bantock Park, the flowers at different stages of opening earlier this month.

Rotten timber in wood old and new. The first picture is of part of a window frame in Hall’s Croft (aka Shakespeare’s daughter’s house) in Stratford on Avon. If the wood is original it will have been felled over four hundred years ago. The other pictures are of a tree by the Railway Walk at Newbridge, snapped in this winter’s gales after being weakened by the fungal infection which caused its rot.