Whether the snowy weather we had earlier this month held them back, or the last week's mild tempteratures have brought them on, when I drove to Gloucester this morning I was staggered to see snowdrops everywhere.
There were clumps at the base of the walls, drifts of them in country churchyards and along the verges of both sides of the road. Some were clearly cultivated in gardens and others seem to have established themselves in huge quantity in woodland.
So clean and fresh, the best thing was that on the (different) way home, I saw just as many again.
Lovely.