#176 - Blossom on Stone

I am officially declaring Spring - we may be a week or so early but there's no way a day like today belonged in Winter. The cherry plum trees were radiantly bridal in the streaming sunshine and beyond the park boundaries, over the stream, I saw a tree that was hazed in dark pink - close up it was covered in tightly furled pink buds, just one or two coaxed open early by the sun today.

#175 - Daisies

Daisies make me happy. Little pieces of happiness.

#174 - Marsh Grass and Moon

It's all about the evening skies at the moment, a sprinkling of flowers, the trees full of buds... the sun sets so graciously and the moon appears early in the sky, while it is still light. By the reservoir the fields are still water-logged and flat, only the marsh grass stands up in clumps. The world is waiting.

#173 - Windblown Blossom

The blossom is heart-lifting, I could look at it for ever. Somehow, even with the petals whisked away by the brisk March winds, it is still beautiful, even exotic. And so, Spring comes.

#172 - White Crocuses

I rescued these broken crocuses from the verge today - hence the splayed petals, fragile and translucent, exposing the wonderful, flame-like stamens. 

#171 - Groovy Baby!

Love these funky Alder catkins which start off purple and are now turning red with purple spots. Very psychedelic.

#170 - Snowberry

I think these may be Snowberries, I'm not sure if they are purple berries turning white or vice versa, but they look so delicate and sweet, strung out like clusters of beads on their bare stems. They look like jewellery.