Wolves Wild

Black woodwart, a dark fungus lying prone on a dead tree in West Park, easy to overlook.

A lone redlead roundhead mushroom growing on wood mulch in a front garden. The pictures date back to last November. Very few mushrooms can survive freezing weather. This is not one which can.

Camelia flowers in a front garden, seen on one of the mornings when it was starting to be frosty early last month.. The even colder nights a few days later finished off the flowers.

The first heavy frost of the winter, early in December, decorating the hedges of the Dutch Garden at the back of Bantock House.

Enough leaves were still left on the surrounding trees to make even the Pitch and Putt course look pleasant in the morning sunlight.

Bright red liqidamber leaves, still on a tree by the West Park lake for some time after all the other trees’ leaves had fallen, just about a month ago.

The ripening fruits were also hanging from the same branches.

A few individual weather vanes for the new year. The school of fish in the first image are accompanied by one of the aggressive chip-thieves of St Ives.

The elaborate bishop and children later in the set should perhaps have been scheduled for a week ago. It’s St Nicholas, dedicatee of the church at beaudesert, Warwickshire.