Seasonal Notes - February 2024
February 2024 Sadly February continued in the same vein as January: dank, wet, cold, dreary, depressing. Those endless grey skies can really get you down, and enough rain to dampen any spirit I had to go out into the garden! So it sat there, beyond the rain lashing on the window panes, largely untroubled. In the occasional pause between downpours, I might summon the energy to go and have a potter and peer at what was peeking its head up through the damp earth - basically, a lot of snowdrops, some pink or white hellebores and some purple crocus. And that’s about it! Due to all the endless rain, the stream was a torrent and it was delightful, as always to hear it tumbling over the stones through the dell and to see it as a gushing waterfall at the top. It is one of my eternal frustrations that in the warm summer days, just when you’d want it to be like that, it dries up! This is due to the fact that it is actually only overflow water and the rest of the spring is diverted underground to
