Walk in the park

Grey Granite was very dispirited by the snowfalls yesterday and last night. By this morning sufficient snow had accumulated to make walking an effort and Spring seemed to have receded . However, on a whim, she varied her route home from Tesco and walked through James Ramsay (Strichen Road) Park. As she crossed the park a blink of sunlight caught a group of elder bushes. The bushes hung with opening catkins and the remains of last year's fruits. More than this a small flock blue tits was feeding on the bushes, the sunlight catching their plumage. The birds seemed quite unaware of being watched as they moved from twig to twig. In the shelter of the trees clumps of daffodil leaves have reached about 7" high and are clearly showing flower buds and a myriad of small seedlings, as yet unidentifiable are showing through. Winter is, after all, passing.