Views of the Malvern Hills’ highest peak, Worcestershire Beacon, with the Shire Ditch leading up the slope. The Ditch is an impressive historic earthwork, which runs for several miles just below the crest of the Malverns. Its original purpose is lost in the mists of time: it might have been created in the bronze age. But it was surely a territorial marker. It still forms a stretch of the boundary between Worcestershire and Herefordshire.
The glory of beech leaves in their autumn colours. The first picture is of a tree growing from a sheer rock face by the little road to St Anne’s Well in Great Malvern. The others, closer to home, are of a tree growing by one of the main roads into Wolverhampton. Closer views of the leaves concentrates on their subtle colours while excluding the distractions of street furniture and passing traffic.
The sight of a kestrel out hunting is sadly not as common as it used to be only a few decades ago. This one was high over the Malvern Hills, hovering in one fixed position, moving to a different spot, then hovering again.
Views looking east from the ridge of the Malvern Hills to the flatter landscape of the west midlands, and west over the Marches to the wilder hills of Wales.
Light green “cups”, spore-shedding structures, of a lichen rising like miniature towers through the darker green leaves of a moss high on the Malvern Hills.
Views looking along the ridge of the Malvern Hills, looking southwards on a blustery morning with cloud occasionally brushing the tops of the hills. The massive prehistoric hill fort of British Camp on the top of Herefordshire Beacon is showing in the distance in some of the pictures.