Male flowers from a Garrya ellpitica bush and a hazel (last picture).

The disused canal wharf near Horseley Fields looks particularly desolate at this time of year.

Umbellifers covered in frost near Compton lock during the icy spell earlier this month.

This gorse bush, growing on the far bank of the Birmingham canal yards from Horseley Fields, was flowering even in the middle of winter.

Directly above Compton lock, the mist was rising from the canal so strongly it looked like steam condensing over boiling water.

Taken from the same position as the picture in the previous post, but turning to look in the direction of Meccano bridge.

The first of three pictures taken by the Staffs and Worcs canal near Compton lock.

There was a wood fire on this narrowboat, the smoke merging with the mist which was rising from the canal under the morning sun.

A coating of frost on the upper surfaces of these buddleia seed-heads and leaves.

The lock-keeper’s cottage is reflected in the ice which was forming on the canal basin.

A couple of old oaks showing their structure while they have lost their leaves.