Robin on a garden fence, only two yards or so from me, singing while its feathers were all fluffed up against the cold.
Cluster of dryad’s saddles
Dryad’s saddles, bracket fungi. Three clustered together on a fallen log by the Railway Walk.
Lining up in rows
Some of the black-headed gull flock at West Park, on the tops of fence posts and along the shore of the lake, lined up in two rows.
Yucca, midwinter flowering
In front gardens on residential streets around here, yuccas which are treating the middle of the hardest winter for several years as their flowering season.
Rings around the moon, faintly rainbowed
The full moon, late January. Early in the morning, it was shining through thin cloud. The halo of light surrounding the moon had a faint rainbow efffect.
Ear fungus, velvety
Ear fungus, found all year round, growing for preference on elder. Seems to have a wide range of different textures – these on a fallen elder branch looked velvety.
