Green shoots

The sun brought a glimmer of warmth this morning....looking forward to welcoming Imbolc on February 1st...tiny little green shoots are daring to emerge if you look carefully around you'll see the first stirrings after a hard winter. There are a few tender clumps of snowdrops braving to show in my spring border...and a beautiful pale yellow primrose. This new world of blogging also seems like a sprouting area in my life. I think Spring is my favourite season....I love the feeling of newness, hope for the coming year and promise of fruitfulness. I need to make more of an effort with the vegetable beds this year being somewhat disheartened by the bad weather last year and devestation by the slugs and snails of everything we planted! Being away for 3 weeks at a crucial time didn't help either as nothing got watered and was left to survive or not....mainly not! We never got round to harvesting the King Edwards either so I will have to have a look and see if any kept ok or if they all rotted...if they didn't they'll be whoppers I should think by now!