Daisies! (two) - Spring!

Envious of your hamamellis mollis Hunt - one of the few latin names I know but isn't it lovely. hama(dryads), honey and soft are the bits of its name - hama means tree/wood?
They are gorgeous trees and terribly slow growing. But a real treat if you see and smell one in Feb.

Two daffodils in flower in my garden, were in bud before the snow but have just opened now it's milder.
Been very wet and windy though so looking a little sad.

Twenty to five and the hills are copper with snow streaks. Spring is just ever the hill, so to speak.

That's lovely, Bags

We have an interesting late-afternoon sky - clear blue, marbelled with soft pink streaks of cloud, together with a billowing blanket of steely grey, hanging low over the islands.

Plenty of scenic beauty to see in Argyll, eh soop? We are lucky, aren't we? To and from Oban for an archery tournament last Sunday reminded me of that too.

We're very fond of Oban. Especially out-of-season. Very good deli with a small upstairs cafe. Treat ourselves to a toastie and a glass of wine. Simple pleasures!

That is one very cold wind out there! Thought I'd do a bit of early Spring gardening - but before scuttling back inside gave a cheer for the little clumps of nodding snowdrops.

It sure is!Just nipped out to collect some eggs (surprised the hens can be bothered it's so chilly) and stumbled across primroses and violets

There may be flowers out there. It's hard to tell with the six inches of snow that appeared overnight.

Solitary yellow crocus out in my garden

The sky had the delicacy of nude skin this late afternoon
Under-flushed with palest bronze.
It back-lit the cherry orchard just up the lane,
Turning it into a pastel rubbed haze of fragile light,
Gone in a moment.

an Impressionist word painting.

Butty .. sheer poetry

Butty Such beautiful words.

So evocative, Butty.

Gosh!

blimey butty that's brilliant

My pots are full of daffodils pushing themselves through and the greenary in the hanging baskets has come back to life things looking very pleasent in the glamma garden.
butty lovely words.

I spotted two anemones out in a pot in the garden yesterday, and the early daffodils are coming out, too. I picked a trio of red camellias for the house, here in Cornwall it's very cold and so windy that when I was out gardening yesterday, my eyes were streaming! It was Candlemass last weekend, very cold, supposed to be a sign of 6 more weeks of winter (the same day as Groundhog Day in the US, too).

An awesome sight of a skein of cranes flying overhead on their way south this evening.

The frogs they are a-wooing. Lots of spawn and splashing

Cranes! wow.

Lots of cranes here!
In Royal Portbury dock!

But no frogspawn!