Wolves Wild

Next year’s flower buds already forming on one of the West Park rhododendron bushes by the middle of November.

Bridgnorth quay and St Leonard’s church, Bridgnorth from across the Severn, with the houses along the quay reflected in the river.

A mass of old man’s beard hanging over the cliff separating High Town and Low Town at Bridgnorth. It was a cold day, so the plant has a heavy dusting of frost. The steam in the foreground was from Low Town central heating.

Another mushroom of the species “unidentified”.

These came from a front garden almost directly across the road from those which featured in the previous post.

Broad Street canal basin partly iced over last week. The Chubb Building looms through the slight mist in the background.

Buddleia showing the plant’s ability to grow just about anywhere. This one has seeded itself in the gatepost by the Lodge in East Park.

Another set of unidentified mushrooms, already well used as a food source by the local wildilfe.

These were growing between the lawn and the roadside wall of a block of flats on Tettenhall Road.

Three views of the canal between Wightwick and Compton, taken as the sun was heading for the horizon on a day when the frost and mist lingered recently.

Wightwick Lock can be seen in the background of the next picture.

The pictures are shown here in the reverse order to the one in which they were taken.

Trees with leaves changing colour for the autumn, reflected in one of the ponds in the garden at Wightwick Manor recently.

The main photo is centered on the reflection. and has then been turned upside down to give an effect I find disorienting. The second picture gives a view of tree and reflection, right side up.

A distant view looking towards Wolverhampton city centre. the Mander Centre office building silhouetted by a sky lit by the rising sun, a fortnight ago.

An unidentified species of mushrooms, but evidently one which was popular with the local fauna.

They were hard to spot under the vegetation at the bottom of the hedge by the towpath near Castlecroft.

I was surprised to notice two umbellifers still flowering in the middle of November. This plant, with the striking pink rim to the flowers, was the one whose frozen leaf has already featured in a post
a couple of days ago.

The plants were in the same field, on the same frosty morning, as the old umbellifer, and the umbellifer with ripening seeds, which featured in today’s earlier posts.