Daisies! (two) - Spring!

The camellia is blooming! Two exquisite deep red flowers - what a joy to see.

Yet[Hmm]

But no frogspawn!

Lots of cranes here!
In Royal Portbury dock!

Cranes! wow.

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

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

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).

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.

blimey butty that's brilliant

Gosh!

So evocative, Butty.

Butty Such beautiful words.

Butty .. sheer poetry

an Impressionist word painting.

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.

Solitary yellow crocus out in my garden

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

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

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.

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!

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 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.

That's lovely, Bags