This famous pub is a dramatic example of how human activity can impact on the landscape. The crazy distortions from the level can give the feeling of being drunk when entering, without a drop (yet) being taken. Its condition is all down to subsidence from the former mines there.
The butterfly was safe in the middle of a bramble patch as it rested with its wings outstretched to warm itself in the morning sunlight.
O.K., not actually the (only) real goal, but the Mermaid was a very welcome refuge from an unexpected April shower.
A bank of white violets last month.
A spring sunrise reflected in the windows of a particularly stark concrete building on Wolverhampton College’s Paget Road site.
A largish mushroom whose fruiting body appears in the spring – supposedly on St George’s day (which is today), though that sounds to me like the type of conceit perpetrated by Victorian gentlemen naturalists.
This one was actually pictured two days ago growing at the edge of a garden. Several others could just about be made out a few inches away, almost hidden by the greenery.
The tree stump gives some idea of the size of the mushroom’s cap.
From a bush by one of the entrances to West Park, pictured before the bad weather at Easter.
A very ancient type of plant, non-flowering because they evolved before there were insects to help in pollination. Most (British) coal is the fossilised remains of members of this family, including species which were as big as trees.
Two coots face up to each other
More threatening postures
Starting to see off the rival
Now he’s going
Time for a satisfied preen
From a, presumably planted, patch in front of the tax office on Tettenhall Road.
The butterfly was getting itself warm for the day spreading its wings on the ground close to Compton lock.
The flower and leaves at the end of a horse chestnut twig almost completely opened up (above), and, on a different tree, just beginning to open (below).
