Swept away by spring

This morning really did feel like the first day of spring.  The sun was shining and it was warm.  Hazel, the ball and I went for an early walk in the park - a slight failure as the Rugby Club were having one of their Sunday sessions with about 500 kids.  Got so hot I wished I hadn't worn my coat.

Coming back I blipped these crocuses.  They grow all over the place round here.  I'm 95% sure they're the wild ones, crocus albiflorus, but have only just caught up with the fact there are wild crocuses.  Before this year I always passed them muttering 'garden escapes'.

What I loved here was the decaying broom leaning against the decaying wall behind them.  It looks a bit as though the flowers are hurrying away from it or else it is sweeping them off its patch.

Later V and Jax came round for a light lunch and an amble round the green where we saw a pair of mighty busy squirrels, and a blackbird guarding his nest.  (Already?  Perhaps).

Happy rest of Sunday  xx