For Mosaic Monday today I'm sharing some images of the beautiful countryside that surrounds our home as it begins to transition from winter to spring.
I found this lovely little ode to snowdrops, pretty little harbingers of spring already beginning to appear this month in gardens and lanes.
The Snowdrop, winter's timid child,
Awakes to life, bedew'd with tears.
- Mary Robinson
Here's what January has looked like hereabouts.
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depleted log pile moss growing on a cherry tree |
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clematite armandii "Apple Blossom" by the front door daffodils in the garden snowdrops; catkins, primroses, ajonc, wild orchid and late mushrooms in the lane stormy skies above |
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silver birch trees swaying in the wind  |
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| late afternoon as rain clouds start to move over the village once again |
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Hazel or birch catkins, not sure which. Another early sign of spring? |
