Daisies! (two) - Spring!

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

Butty your poems are lovely. You should gather them up. It seems such a waste just writing them and then they are gone.

I agree, broomsticks Butty is a true poetess.

It's been so lovely here today that I am loathe to close the curtains.

Oh, but kitty doesn't the dust suddenly appear? And the smears on the windows? Fortunately I am managing to ignore it all!

Yes it does Ariadne but I must need new specs or something.

The worst place, when the sun shines, is the glass cupboard doors in the kitchen - I do wish people would be more careful when they open and close them!

kitty Sometimes, when I think my eyesight is getting worse, that cleaning my specs helps! Now there's a handy household tip? But then one would see the smears and dust more clearly...

Absolutely glorious day. A red admiral rested on some early daffs today!!! Last winter buff tailed bumbles were sipping at the clematis all winter but NONE this year I guess the wet weather has done for them. Hope they recover.

The sunshine has gone. Lots and lots of grey now. Probably just as well for my back I suppose. It doesn't like gardening. I do though.

It is a beautiful day in Kintyre. As good as it was when I met Bags in the George at Inveraray... [always need to check the spelling...but it is correct]. Shrubs in bud. Heather looking grand. Birds tweeting. Cat and Mr soop snoring as the sunshine floods through the window.

I hope the mating and spawn laying frogs are alert this morning. There's a heron in our pond.

Back in Oxfordshire, I once saw a carrion crow catch and devour a frog.

Absolutely perishing here in the South East. Easterly wind forecast to continue for a while.

Absolutely perishing here too, Jess. My walk this morning was in brilliant sunshine but the wind was arctic! Plain miserable. My hot coffee's good though.

Hot coffee, mmm! And, soon, some flapjack to have with it . Bitter east wind here too. Chilly February.

We were going to Lincoln for the weekend but have decided that east winds, snow flurries and temperatures of minus 3 are not conducive to sightseeing, so are staying put in our warm house

Poor frogs, Bags! We had a heron in our pond a few years back and it just stood there swallowing frogs, one after another. I sent the dog down to chase it off. She charged down ready for bird scaring duty, then saw how big it was and fled.

I'm very conscious of bird song and chatter in the mornings now .

It's trying to snow here.

The birds around here are lively too. Perhaps they know something we don't.

Snowing heavily here. Sigh.

Here too - for us it is great news as we love skiing, both downhill and cross-country - and we needed a bit extra. We wouldn't have chosen to live where we do if we didn't like snow

This early evening
Lapwings rising aloft
Beating colours in flight
Black and white
In sunlight
Turning, lifting on air
Dot, dash, silver flash
An aerial morse code of delight.

lovely!

night, nite