Wolves Wild

Garden poppies pictured on a cloudy early morning after heavy overnight rain (above), and on a sunny midday (the opened blooms and the bud below).

These were big mushrooms similar to the field mushroom, so they were probably horse mushrooms. I couldn’t get up very close to check, so they could have been another related species. Some of these are poisonous.

They were growing just over the wall from Tettenhall Road in the grounds of Linden House (the former Masonic Hall).

Along the driveway directly opposite the recently vandalised Lodge.

Most people would be surprised that this woodland glade is only a few minutes from Wolverhampton city centre. The hillocks of the wooded end of the park are a relic of the one-time mining in the area.

It was a couple of days after the Diamond Jubilee long weekend. A floral display on the terrace of the Black Swan (aka Dirty Duck) in Stratford on Avon had obviously been designed to have a colour theme to fit the festivities.

The weather was rainy and windy, more like autumn than early summer. The white petunias didn’t appear to like the conditions, and had closed up so they were hard to spot.

But the water drops remaining on the plants and the diffused lighting added drama to those flowers which were out. I like photo opportunities when I am sitting comfortably with a nice pint in front of me.

This bee was out early one morning a couple of weeks ago gathering nectar from chives flowering in one of the city’s allotments.

Some grains of pollen can already be seen sticking to it.