I think Spring is now on its way!!!!!

Hiya - well I woke up to beautiful blue sky and I thought - "This is it - I'm off to see the spring flowers on the driveway!!!" so after my breakfast, I gathered my camera and luckily remembered to take my cardigan( a move I was to be thankful for later!!, off I went to collect my rollator from the shed. I was so pleased to see that it was easier to open than it had been of late. I feel so much happier now I have the rollator, I feel so much more safe with it - I can stop whenever I feel my back is hurting or I feel giddy and just sit down. When I want to take pictures, I sit down and it also steadies me so I don't have loads of blurred photos!!!

So today it looked all lovely and warm, but oh boy it wasn't - the wind was so icy. The last time I went out there it was quite sparse with flowers, but today it was really starting to have colour.







Now the bluebells are starting to flower - so there are splashes of blue in amongst the green foliage. In about a week or so - it should be a riot of colour.....



Looking up the other part of the drive - I was pleasantly surprises to see so many primrose plants....









There was even an interloper - a deep red primula - I certainly hadn't planted it, so it's been brought in by a bird or blown by the wind. However it arrived, I don't care - it's a very welcome splash of colour....



As I rounded the top of the drive I could see the gorse bush leaning over the fence to say hello!!!!





It is such a beautiful vibrant colour and the individual flowers are just fantastic. I was looking at them closely and they're a bit like roses, with lots of petals curling round each other. They've also got the sharp thorns like the rose!!

Then I decided to go back to the house, it was really bitingly cold. I also noticed that there was the beginning of a forsythia bush - still in its youth - but it should be pretty when it's fully grown.


As I walked back down the drive, I noticed that there was lots of catkins - well I call them catkins, and I remembered playing with them when I was a child, waggling them because they looked like lambs' tails or kitten tails. Did any of you do the same?


Looking at them here - I'm wondering if they are in fact catkins. If they aren't, can anyone tell me what they are? Right - now for the best part of my walk - apart from the fact that the wind was now behind me and it didn't feel so cold - I saw the blossom!!!! The cherry and damson tree have both got blossom on them. I was so thrilled. Soon the main cherry tree will have blossom on it and that's fantastic because it's right outside my bedroom and I'll wake up to windows full of cherry blossom for a few weeks!!!!





See what I mean - these are definitely signs that we are going to have warmer weather, our gardens are going to be colourful - okay I'm going to have to plead for someone to cut my grass - but on the whole ............ I'M SO HAPPY - SPRING HAS ARRIVED !!!!!!