It’s an every day, ordinary drop of rain water on the hairy leaf of a common-all-garden lupin leaf, but it caught my eye, glistening in the light.
Lots of gardening today, but the sky was overcast, so that my solar-powered radio failed me and I had to collect the old battery-powered one from the bedside! Weeding and ‘Weekend Womens’ Hour’ and an occasional cuppa. Better than shopping any day.
Now that a lot of the winter debris has been cleared the flower beds look a lot more Springlike.
Boadicea's Chariot 
You are having amazing weather, we have had yet more snow this morning but it didn’t settle.Will spend the afternoon in the greenhouse sowing seeds, if I don’t start soon when it breaks I’ll be ending up having to BUY starts, a total heresy!!! As for winter clear up I can’t get near the morass that were the borders. But we are a lot more lucky than those down on the plain, the water table is so high that everywhere is under 6″ of flood. The tundra swans are the only ones that like it, the earthworms come to the surface and are drowned providing a neat lunch for the migrating hordes.
Went and inspected the community garden in Everson yesterday, that was actually out of water and drained quite well, hence the seed sowing to get a bit of a start in April.
We must be a good three weeks later than last year, no, a good month. I sowed peas in late February last year. This year it would be pease pudding!
while here we have drought warnings….
We’ve stocked up with seeds but can’t plant any until late April if we’re lucky weatherwise.
Heavens janus, that late as a normal start?
Ouch, wouldn’t want to live there, it makes winter so long.
Lovely photo, Nym.
Yes, no point in planting anything that needs watering at the moment. Hosepipe ban and all that. Not good but I I rarely water anything in my garden. Most of my plants survive but I don’t grow vegetables because it too hard at the moment. They need too much water!
No new planting at the moment…. all tidying up from last year, really.
Two afternoons in the greenhouse has three varieties of tomatoes, two lots of aubergines and peppers sown under heat.
Sown some early peas, 5 to a pot because the voles eat them even when coated with the pink gook, once germinated they are not interested.
And finally pricked out a load of leeks sown in January before I left.
Lots of pruning, grooming and rearranging of plants to get to the hot mats and ruthless eviction of ragged rubbish!
I am absolutely exhausted, can hardly stand up, this flu bug really was akin to ‘bubonic plague’ in that it has left me really weak, now two and half weeks and just about beginning to get it back together again. My sister has had it three weeks and is still in a dreadful state much worse than me. I suppose one should be thankful for small mercies.
Rain and snow carrying on apace, dogs sitting in the greenhouse supervising, eyeing the drumming on the roof with great apprehension, “Mummy, mummy, we might just get wet!”
Now they are advising thunder and lightening, for God’s sakes!
I just wish they would advertise Armageddon properly, none of this shillyshallying around!