Spring has (or had!) arrived

Yesterday was beautiful!

The sun shone, and it was wonderfully warm.

I even sat outside at lunchtime, and ate a sandwich and then crocheted.  Utter bliss!

Thankfully, I took some photos for my monthly garden colour album, as today has been 10 degrees colder and raining.  Not very springlike at all!  Oh well, there's always tomorrow.  Fingers crossed as Matt has another cricket match, and it would be lovely to watch him in the sun.  It lacks a certain something watching if you have to huddle under blankets wearing 5 jumpers!

Back to my garden - it has suddenly burst in to life.  At long last.

 Can you see "Hector the Heron"? - a birthday present from my sister last week.  He is made from recycled metals and looks very at home amongst the heathers and camelias.

 Beautiful primroses.

 Wide open tulips

 Forget-me-nots

 The last few daffodils.  I'm amazed how quickly they have finished.

 I seemed to wait ages for them to flower, and their time is over already

 Stripy hyacinths :)

 A carpet of grape hyacinths

 Bright tulips - these were tight buds in the morning and like this by lunchtime

 These are new tulips this year - very bright and zingy

 Acidic yellow of euphorbia bracts

 Cowslips.  :)  Very pleased to see these as I sourced them from a supplier of English country flowers.  They are doing really well now - but it has taken time

 This one is growing in my lawn and I couldn't face mowing over it - so I went round it instead!

And finally a mosaic in case you couldn't face all the photos along the way!

Thanks for looking.

Off to do some more camera / photography reading now.  I am getting a new camera - we ordered it yesterday.  It is my birthday present from Mark & Matt.  It should be ready for collection at the beginning of June - so plenty of time to read all about how to improve.

xx