The month of March, in our climate, often brings a strange mix of hope and despair. We know by the lengthening days that spring is on its way, but it still seems out of reach. Thursday morning the streets lay bare, the birds were twittering... Later in the day it started snowing, and in the evening a thick layer of snow once more covered the ground and the trees! Now, Sunday, most of the snow is again gone. But nature is really at its most bleak and dull. You get that feeling of doubt - it just doesn't seem possible anything will ever grow out of the ground again! If you see a bit of colour somewhere, it turns out to be a piece of candy wrapping...
However, if you lift your eyes from the ground to the tree tops, there is that hint of purple, that wasn't quite there a few weeks back... And if you can get close enough, you'll find you weren't wrong!
