Wolves Wild

Glossy black fruit on a garden hedge privet.

Many of the mosses growing on the top of walls seem to put out their fruiting bodies in the middle of winter. Often they are just in time to be decorated by the first frosts of the season.

The folly and radio aerials mark the silhouetted skyline as Sedgley Beacon beneath a sky where the sun kept breaking through from behind fast-moving clouds.

Orange peel fungus: the fruiting bodies normally have a little space separating them, so they look like discarded litter. Here they are almost all forming one tight clump.

Garden chrysamthemum with distinctive petals looking like purple spikes, flowering through November and December.

View along the canal seen from the Bridgnorth Road bridge on a misty and frosty morning. The building on the right started life as one of the many mills powered by the Smestow Brook.

Varied and vivid colours of the leaves on one of the liquidambar bushes in West Park at the end of last month.

Flowers and a flower bud from a camellia peeping over a garden wall in the middle of December.

Delicate milking bonnet mushrooms (white sub-species) growing on a tree trunk.

There was a frost that night, and all the fungi had shrivelled by morning.

Frost-covered leaves and seeds of a small cypress – possibly a leylandii.