signs of spring - weekly challenge TUT

it is thursday - and its TUT day - (team up thursday)
Marcelle and I did run around and we tried to find something to
shoot for this weeks theme "signs of spring".
Believe me - it was really hard to find something - last week I found the
first early spring flowers in my garden and guess what - on monday it began
to snow again and all my flowers are covered thick with snow :(
So what now? Thankfully there are some trees and kind of plants that show up
the first sign of being awaken again - even its winter here!!! Everything is white and
its quite cold...
So back to our theme: Its funny how Marcelle and I sometimes do almost the same shoot - we don't talk to each other what we have in mind and every wednesday when we put our collage together we often smile when we see what comes from the other side...
I love Marcelles lonesome "stand up" - it looks like it wanted to say: hello?? Am I the one and only who begins to wake up again??? love the bokeh in the background... Well done my partner Marcelle - great captured.
Stupid me who didn't capture the first showing up of my early spring flowers last weekend - so I had to see what I can find from monday to wednesday - and being honest on tuesday I went out - just in front of our door - and found this leaves.... its not really a spring photo (should be more colorful) but theres more winter than spring ...