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AUTUMN AND WINTER 



ivy alongside a lamp shed on a little country station where 

 I have found wasps many weeks after the last of them were 

 thought to be dead. I have never seen them in December, 



IVY FLOWERS 



but very often found one or two during the last days of 

 November.' The flies usually outlive the wasps. The thin 

 watery sunshine of a December morning will catch the 

 metallic blues of the bottle-fly crawling slowly over the leaf 



