Wolves Wild

Fruit or berries on a dogwood bush changing colours as they ripen.

Pendeford Rockin(or the Narrows) is a short section of the Staffs and Worcs Canal which is barely wide enough for one boat at a time. It is cut through very hard rock, Bromsgrove sandstone.

One boat must have been through recently and slightly misjudged things, leaving a scrape of paint on the stone.

In autumn the leaves of guelder roses (viburnum) turn a bright red matching the glossy berries.

Liverwort thriving growing on a downstream canal lock gate by a small leak which creates the dampness the plant needs.

Another of Wolverhampton’s streams in a misleadingly rural-seeming setting. The Penn Brook seen from the bridge which carries the road which crosses Penn Common heading for Gospel Oak.

Skimmia bush by Bantock House, wet after heavy rain.

View down the Wolverhampton end of the Shropshire Union Canal, seen from the bridge carrying the towpath of the Staffs & Worcs Canal across Autherley Junction.

Some of the many bees attracted to echinops flowers in one of the borders in West Park back in August.

Dewdrops on a reedmace leaf refracting the morning sunlight into the colours of the rainbow.

The red of thos newly-emerged fly agaric began to wash out with the first rain. This is how it looked before that happened.

Its colours are so over the top that I just had to have another go at picturing the spindle tree by the Railway Walk.

Watercress growing in a stream, still flowering last month.