In Search of Spring

They hide you know! Those flower things! Finding them can be quite difficult. On a brief inspection the garden still looks what I would call winter drab. There are still some Autumn leaves blowing around and the grass looks very tufty – not at all exciting or attractive. Now that the frost has gone – well at least it has today round here – we have strong sunlight and deep shadows and it is in those deep shadows that the majority of flowers I have selected hide.

Searching around there are quite a lot of flowering plants and just to annoy my critics I am not prepared to name most of them, but I love their colours. Quite often I need to put my macro lens on to show them up because they are so small, but it is their colours that I love.

Even the bare trees are starting to produce buds and other bits* that will develop once the sun becomes a little stronger and the hours of daylight a little longer.

Signs of Spring abound;

and of course there are snowdrops.

I think each year I have featured snowdrops on this blog, and so this time there is only going to be one picture of them. However I was delighted to find a few early daffodils. For me that really says the year is on the move.

Time for me to be on the move – have a good weekend

• Note the use of a devastating technical term