Sunshine on Snowdrops

I read in the news today that natures calendar is running a little behind schedule in the UK this year due to the very cold weather we had in December. It's going to spring on us all of a sudden sometime soon.

At present we've had alternating days of sunshine and rain. Today started brightly and I was planning a trip to one of Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust woodlands to take some photos to submit to an exhibition they're planning to hold soon. However things soon clouded over and I decided to leave it for another day. In a brief sunny period I managed a few playful snaps of sunshine on snowdrops by holding the camera right in amongst the flowers, setting aperture for a good depth of field and relying on auto focus.

There are an awful lot of different snowdrops, hundreds I believe. We seem to have just 2 varieties in the garden but a man I know has a quite a collection. Some of his rarer specimens are valued at over 100 pounds I'm told, although to an untrained eye it can be often difficult to tell the difference between them. It can also all be rather a worry I believe, with bad weather, cats and clumsy badgers abound.