The male flowers of a hazel bush, with a leaf bud visible where they fork off from the main twig.
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Bear baiting
One of the simple pleasures of the good old days: dogs tear a bear to pieces to provide a spectator sport suitable for a female audience.
This portrayal on a misericord is in the old parish church in Enville.
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Rosebay willowherb in winter
The remains of one of the plants from last year.
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Abbot’s Bromley Horn and Horse Head
One of the sets of antlers and the hobby horse head as used in the annual Abbot’s Bromley Horn Dance, held on the Monday which falls between September 6th and September 12th (inclusive).
The antlers have been carbon dated as originating in the eleventh century; the hobby horse is a modern copy of a medieval original.
The antlers and horse can be seen in the village church when not in use.
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Squat mushroom
This unusually-proportioned mushroom was growing near a bramble bush in Hawthorn Wood, a patch of woodland in the Smestow Valley LNR off Hordern Road. Despite its distinctive shape, I haven’t managed to identify its species.
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Parkdale, pre-dawn
These pictures were taken in Parkdale, off the Tettenhall Road, about an hour before an early December sunrise.
