Today I walked over to the farmer's market and all the signs of spring are much stronger despite the bitterly cold wind. The mahonia on the car park of the homewares store is now fully in flower with very large lime green flower sprays which gave off a promising whiff of delightful lily-of-the-valley type perfume, even though they weren't exactly bathed in warm sunshine.
On Castle Green, the blue tits and great tits were cheerfully twittering to each other and flitting from one tree to another while Mr and Mrs blackbird busily turned over the leaves under the hedges and where the gardeners had just spread out some mulch on the flower beds.
After finishing my shopping, I walked back the same way but this time took a bit longer so that I could really see if there were more signs of spring and I was pleasantly surprised. Most of the trees and shrubs have buds on them and some are showing obvious signs of growth. The hazel catkins have been waving their tasseled branches about for a month or so and even the hawthorn bushes along the edge of the school have very large buds along their twigs. The robins and chaffinches in the Jew's graveyard have also been breaking into song during the last week.
When I got home I went out into the back garden and managed to take some photos of the camelia and crocuses. The honeysuckles are starting to break out into leaf so hopefully it will be a bit warmer next week so that I can go out and get started with my springtime chores in the garden.
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