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Twisty or strongly patterned trunks, or roots grasping grimly onto bare rock drew my attention to these trees, all growing just a few minutes walk uphill from Great Malvern.

Hot air balloon rising over the mist flooding the Vale of Evesham. The balloon was rising like it had taken off near Worcester, and was drifting gently over the Severn and towards the Cotswolds.

Views across the Vale of Evesham on a misty morning earlier this month. Looking out from the Malvern Hills, just a few minutes walk above Great Malvern. Across on the other side of the Severn / Avon valley, Bredon Hill is the most prominent of the features rising through the mist. Further away, the main scarp slope of the Cotswolds was a ghostly presence.

Yucca flowers on the same plant: those on one stem not quite open yet, on another all finished.

A very late brood of ducklings, November hatchlings, on the lake at Priory Park, Great Malvern, earlier this month. There they have probably got as good a chance as anywhere of surviving through the winter.

Shades of green on the foliage of a potted palm, growing outside on the terrace of a pub.