It's my late morning so I'm enjoying the peace. That's relative of course because a crowd of birds is competitively singing in the garden and builders are clattering in the street. To me though, peace can be about a felling not just the absence of noise. My late start on a Wednesday has become completely key to my mental survival - I was still thinking about irritations from work as I dropped off to sleep at 11 which has got to stop! But now I feel different.
It's a wet and windy day in the Shandon oasis. Amusingly when I popped out the back this morning I discovered a pair of pants that I had pegged out to dry on Sunday was still there. I brought the laundry in while it was pitch black and haven't been home in the light since. Gave me a giggle this morning though and I clicked a quick picture on my phone to send to the Mighty Jimbs at work to hopefully lighten his mood!

Jimbs has taken some beautiful pictures of crocuses but I haven't got them yet so I'm going to whisk round with my vastly inferior camera (the biggie is without batteries) and grab a few key shots.
Above you can see the narcissus that came into bloom yesterday. The smell is gorgeous and they have a really jaunty air to them.

These crocuses are the ones for me though - so randomly crazy and utterly gorgeous. Going on the principle of Intelligent Design, the God who invented these might have taken acid in the 60s. Edinburgh is full of crocuses encrusting public spaces and forcing their way into any free space. The city is never so colourful as in February and March. I read recently that the reason that the spring flowering bulbs are all woodland plants is because the leaves are not there to block out the light so this is their time to flower with the light coming through the bare branches. I would imagine the weather conditions are marginally better under the tree also.
Tried to get a shot of the Delphinium shoots but my camera ran out of battery (seeing a theme here). Those 2 where called John and Ro after 2 friends who gave me the Dobbies voucher I used to buy them. I took seeds and am hoping to add to them this year, at least one of those will need to be called Lucy after their daughter.