Pussy Willows

Today's the day ........................ to spring forth

Good friends, Bob and Helen (see extra), are with us for a couple of days and this morning we took them for a walk along the shore of Kirkcudbright Bay.

It was another beautiful day with not a cloud in a sky that was as blue as it possibly could be.  Signs of spring were everywhere and I heard my first chiff-chaff of the season.  The above catkins were springing forth, despite the fact that the tree they were part off, was no longer standing.  It probably had been a casualty of Storm Eowyn that caused so much damage round these parts last month.

A final show before the end would inevitably come ....................