Wolves Wild

View over the partly-frozen Birmingham Canal towards the bottom lock.

The trees beyond the bridge are on the far side of the Staffs & Worcs Canal towpath.

These vivid autumnal leaves were on bushes by the lawn at Wightwick Manor.

As so often in the pictures this year, there were the remains of water after recent rain.

This clump of mushrooms had skins which were almost the same colour as chocolate.

They were growing on an island in the middle of a road.

Two narrowboats moored near Compton Lock on a frosty morning recently.

Mastadon, though not the Santas on its roof, can just about be seen behind the boat with the penguin figurehead and shark decoration.

A fungus which does look remarkably like pieces of discarded orange peel.

There’s a crop of them every autumn around the base of one of the trees very near the Conservatory in West Park.

This year, the “pieces of peel” (the fungus’s fruiting bodies) were smaller and more numerous than normal.

A plant still flowering right on the edge of the canal at Wightwick a month ago.