Secrets under the Leaves

A bright sunny day today and when we went out to fetch in some logs, we suddenly saw these crocus in bloom under the trees.  They had pushed up through the blanket of leaves and in some cases the individual crocus flowers had a necklace of dead leaf around the flowers .

This afternoon we went for a walk around the local roads and, on the way back, realised that there were some newly appeared flowers in the front garden too..

These winter aconites had sprung up over the last week despite the snow and it feels as if Spring may be just around the corner, at last..