Lots of wee green buds all round the garden, and there is a blackbird outside singing its wee orange beak off (at 5am). Although I do feel a wee bit sad that we haven’t had a proper cold snap yet, but there’s still time.

Bring on spring.

Signs of spring? I haven’t even seen signs of winter yet! All it’s been is the old mild day in the last 7 or 8 weeks or relentless rain & wind…

It’s January, put the enthusiasm away till at least March….

Nice hard frost here, lovely morning.

Birdsong here too!, Robin and a Blackbird going for it!
Light at the end of the tunnel 🙂

There’s another big storm forecast for Saturday.. gales, wind rain and big tides.

Tadpoles in a pond at Glentress. This was back in mid-December.

Didn’t feel very spring like last night up on Walna Scar, the wind was biting cold! More to come yet…

We have snowdrops.
It IS getting lighter!
But, it’s a long way to go….

Now you’ve all gone and ruined February…..

Agreed though, on a roof in a t-shirt yesterday I was thinking springy thoughts too.

its not spring till you see them daffodils

Snowdrops?

I have a Witchazel in my garden, in full flower now, prob 2-3 weeks earlier than normal

no cold weather forecast for next few weeks up until 20th feb, so buy then surely we have less chance of anything artic happening, or not for long

Wish spring and summer would hurry up. Cant be doinh with these single figure temperature s. Anything 15 Celsius and above for me.
And the mud is beginning to bore me, and hurt my washing machine.

nah bring on the snow and sub-zero temperatures please. I like a good hard winter, plenty of time for summer

shropshire last spring, sorry i mean march

as we are doing pics…

2014-01-29 13.39.38 by Mike Smith 79, on Flickr

Meanwhile down here….

Snowdrops, anenomes, bergenia and hellebore all spotted in flower yesterday. Still didn’t make me want to go out on the bike last night though.

when all the boring so&sos stop doing dry january it will improve.
all that liquid has to go somewhere you know.

i predict a very short coldish snap, followed by a wet spring and sub aqua summer.

I’ve been living up here in Aberdeenshire for long enough to know that some snow is still on the cards this year. But the snows that arrive in March/April don’t tend to hang around for long so we are running out of time for that Worst Winter in Decades we were promised.

Snowdrops arrived this week as well.

Snowdrops by brf, on Flickr

A carpet of bluebell bulbs are pushing up through the ground in the local woods.
Snowdrops and crocii abound.
All sorts of buds n blossom all peeking tentatively.
I cant wait this year….