#316 - Cherry Plum Blossom and Purple Deadnettle

I was trying to explain Spring to my in-laws when I was in Africa this Christmas, and failing - how can you explain the world coming back to life? Maybe it's as much to do with the absence of winter as anything else, it feels like a miracle every year. On our walk today I could see the first drops of colour appearing in the world; tiny blue speedwell flowers, golden celandines on the banks of the stream and the mauve flowers of the purple deadnettle. It makes me glad to be alive!

#118 - Purple Deadnettle

Saw these lovely purple nettles in the field outside my sister's house, they remind me of crouching down in the back garden as a child and seeing the weeds growing by the wall, nettles with purple and white flowers, we used to suck the white flowers because they were sweet like honey.