Signs of spring!

Having got heartily sick of winter, I was delighted when spring flowers and buds started appearing! They immediately lift my spirits.

This is the one and only crocus in our garden at the moment!




These ones are in a park in Portobello.











I absolutely love the purple and white variety. I'm trying to work out how to interpret it in a jewellery design.


Leaf buds on shrubs near Silverknowes.




Forsythia, in Portobello.






Daffodils, also in a park in Portobello.






This is (I think) blackthorn. There's a lot of it growing on the way to the supermarket, so we get to see it a lot, which is good becasue it's beautiful while in flower.

One of my snow and ice posts showed the same shrubs covered in snow a few months ago.





I want to make this in silver!




Also, note that there is 1) a blue sky, b) no rain falling and iii) no howling gale blowing all the flowers sideways!

Ice and Berries

I'm going to use some of these as inspiration for jewellery designs.

Oh, and just to finish up...

Snow and snowflakes, 2010

Snow, Sky and Sunsets - February 2009

The snow and ice photos were taken along the Union Canal, in Linlithgow.









































These last three photos were taken on Princes Street in Edinburgh. I was waiting at a bus stop when the sun suddenly got low enough to light up all the cloud. Almost everyone around me stopped to look, many taking photos. It was a beautiful sight, seeing the colours change for about five minutes, and I was quite sad when the sun finally set - I could have happily watched for a lot longer!