Noticed on a Walk

On my long walk I noticed: a tree stump whose entire cut surface was covered in lichen, the first jonquil I've seen this year, a flamed shaped leaf with perfectly graduated flame colouring, a worm that had been too slow, goldfinches nibbling in a plane tree (who knew they even did that?), a pair of white-faced herons on a business park verge, a crack in the footpath that cut through the curb and extended a metre into the road, a cylindrical apple core with a diameter of one centimetre it's whole length lying where someone had tossed it -but on it's end!!