Blossoms on the block

©2019 Barry Smith - Unfurling - delicate pink and white camellia

Though we are in the middle of winter there are still some brave plants and bushes that are producing the odd blossom. It makes me smile to discover blossoms that forgot that it is winter and time to hibernate.

©2019 Barry Smith - Violet catching the sun

©2019 Barry Smith - Delicate weed flower

©2019 Barry Smith - Native violet

©2019 Barry Smith - Such detail and layers of complexity in this magnolia

©2019 Barry Smith - Unfurling pink camellia bathed in dew

©2019 Barry Smith - Our first tiny snowdrop.

©2019 Barry Smith - Rosemary blossoms - note the tiny native bee in the bottom right flower

©2019 Barry Smith - Graham has a few orchids out in his orchid house

And because we are back into a dry patch the cloudless morning sky produces that horizon of peach and blue.

©2019 Barry Smith - Morning cloud and colour in the valley and hills

We need the fragments of colour to nurture us on the short days of winter.