Wolves Wild

It was a damp morning, so I didn’t hang around to see what happened next. These snails on the top of a wet wall could have been getting ready to get amorous, or facing up to a fight over territory.

I presume that the pink parts at the end of this structure are flowers. An exotic-looking ornamental tree in someone’s front garden.

Near the house in Bantock Park.

These natives of the southern Andes do look like their branches are the models for a three-dimensional maze.

This bedraggled mushroom was growing at the foot of one of the roadside trees not far from West Park.

This fly was standing on the edge of the petal, seeming to use the flower as a look-out post.

As far as I know, flies don’t go for nectar. But that is what this one seemed positioned to do.

The same flower, seen first from directly above and then from the side.

Don’t rhubarb flowers look exotic?

The magpie was on the lookout on a tall tree directly behind the house in Bantock Park.

This was one of a group of moderately large mushrooms, which were still fairly inconspicuous where the grass had grown around them.

Another picture from a visit to Bantock Park in early May. A maple tree was in flower. Although the leaves had not been out for long, something had already been nibbling them.