I was wrong the other day when I wrote that all the snow had gone, the local children had built a huge snow figure on the village green, which I only noticed at night when we went out for a short end of day walk to visit the ducks, something the daft dog loves to do.
Last night in the orange glow of the street light there was still a persistent pile left behind.
But something the recent thaw has allowed to show up in the garden are snowdrops ...
As you can see the nettles are doing rather well too and ... being munched by something. The early daffodils were budding well until the snow and then flowering slowed down but all around the garden thousands of leaves of the later varieties are pushing up through the grass which will be left unmown until all the many different varieties have bloomed.
As for the weather it is gustingly windy, the house getting regularly buffeted ... loudly!
Looking at the forecast for the next few days for here and back home, what a mixed bag of varying types of weather are in store for us all, we're in for some unstable conditions.
This morning out in the very damp garden with the dogs, I noticed a small eye on a leaf.
It is the fading remnant of a peacock butterfly wing and looked rather bedraggledy sad.
We have a saying here about "Keeping a weather eye on the sky." This one certainly is.
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