The Small Things Spreading Joy in February

Posted on by Kizzia

The shortest month of the year and, for me, often the hardest as it can feel like winter is never ending and the grey cold days will go on forever. Yet there are all the signs of spring if you look for them, which taking and sharing these photos ensured I did.

A swathe of snowdrops covers a bank that slopes away from the camera, between two trees, down to a sunlit spring green lawn. A tiny portion of the wood beamed Ightham Mote house is visible in the background.
A close up of some of the snowdrops in the first photo.
Purple newly sprouted cyclamen are at the very front of the photo, surrounded by leaf litter and other new spring growth. There is a tree trunk to the left of the background but most of the shot is a cream and timber framed old building with a massive set of chimneys, all just slightly out of focus.
A hand wearing a forest green fingerless glove and matching nail varnish holds up a brown paper wrapped book, with a white tag tied on with string, in front of Ightham Mote Manor House. The tag is handwritten and says “Written with a burning respect for the spirit of history, enter the world of a Saxon princess who went to Scotland in 1069. Compelling …”
A broken branch covered with frilly pale green lichen lies on a leaf covered path. In the background, out of focus, are shrubs and ivy covered trees in multiple shades of green.
Pairs of fluffy looking yellow-green catkins hang from slender branches. In the background is green shrubbery and brown bare woodland.
A group of Lenten roses photographed from below, so the sun shines from above making petals and leaves glow.
Pale yellow blossom and new green leaves sprout from dark brown branches. In the background is the side of a high rise building and blue sky.
A chocolate brown springer spaniel looks at me through the gap between two train seats.
A chocolate brown springer spaniel pops its head around the train seat for a cuddle.
Close up of six golden yellow crocuses, just starting to open, bursting out of leaf litter covered ground.
Close up of one partly open rose in a bunch. The rose has a pale purple petals at its centre and the outer petals are mottled with shades of green and antique cream in them. All the roses have a very “Miss Haversham” look about them, old and worn and faded.
Close up of a group of primroses in full flower underneath a yew hedge. The primrose flowers have 5 pale yellow petals with egg yolk yellow centres and the pair leaves are large, fleshy and almost lime green.
Close up of a Daphne bush focusing on the clusters of tiny pink four petalled flowers with yellow centres. The clusters have long oblate mottled green leaves at their bases on the branch.
A close up of a very fluffy and fuzzy looking yellow-cream bud on a magnolia tree. Other branches and out of focus greenery make up the background.
Close up of a purple-pink pansy with lush green leaves sitting in an otherwise empty patch of soil.
Five boxes of herbal tea are pyramid stacked on a white desk. Three cardboard boxes on the bottom row contain (from left to right) Just Rose in an orange box, The Quiet Mind in a green box, Relax in an orange box. Two tin boxes are on top of them, on the left Lemongrass and Ginger in a meadow grass and yellow sky decorated tin and on the right Sleep Tight in a pink tin decorated with moons and stars and planets.
Close up of a vase filled with many open yellow-gold roses with red-pink edges. The photo was taken from above, the roses filling the photo completely and the only thing visible apart from their petals the leaves below them.
Close up of flowering witch hazel - very thin bright yellow petals making the branches look like they have scarecrow hair with red centres to the flowers very close to the branch that look like the flowers have jam stuck in them.
A turquoise vase covered with sculpted flowers sits on a coffee table in a living room. In the vase is a flower arrangement containing 6 stems, each one different. They are retama (the spray covered in tiny pinkish flowers at the back of the arrangement), chrysanthemum (pink blooms top left), sea holly (on right of chrysanthemum), verbena (many budded purple single stalk on right of sea holly), clematis (large pale purple five petalled flowers on right of arrangement) and sea lavender (small purple spray at bottom of arrangement).
Ten chocolate brown cupcakes in purple, blue and red spotted cake cases are piled into a pyramid on top of a wire baking stand on a granite grey kitchen countertop.
Close up of a pale lilac and green tinged clematis flower with vivid green leaves.
Tiny pink and white buds are clustered along a twig, one of the clusters also having the smallest of leaves behind them. In the background, out of focus, is a stone wall with moss at the bottom and a soil border.
A royal blue winter flowering iris, with three open flower beads. The centres are white and yellow.
Bunches of bright red berries hang from a tree with oval green leaves. In the background is a cream & brown timber framed building with a leaded window and a sliver of blue sky.
Close up of a winter jasmine flower, five lemon yellow petals and a single stamen of the same colour. In the background, out of focus, is the new green shoot growth of the plant and the brown of the previous years branches.
A large very pale pink flower with a golden yellow centre of many stamens is surrounded by many lanceolate yellow green leaves. In the background the rest of the bush, covered in flowers, is visible but out of focus.
Four small white flowers, each with six white oval petals and yellow topped stamens, growing on a green shrub with long thin leaves.
A cloud shaped cluster of tiny white flowers, all tinged with pink, on an otherwise bare branch. In the background, out of focus, are green shrubs and trees and an iron fence.
A clump of snowdrops, most fully open but some still only in bud, stand alone in a patch of brown earth. Behind them, out of focus, is a hedge, some bare branches, and some green shrubs.

If you’re wondering why there are thirty photos rather than twenty eight it is because for two of the days I shared two photos rather than just one.

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