Spring is not yet sprung…
Looking through some photos on the hard-drive on my PC I came across a series I took of frogs in our neighbours’ pond at this time last year. I remember the day well. It was a gorgeous, sunny, warm day; we were all say in the garden in t-shirts, drinking chilled wine after an afternoon sorting through the composter in order to get some decent compost out to fill our new, raised vegetable beds.
The pond was full to the brim with frogspawn and every time someone walked past there were several watery plops and sploshes as frogs dived for cover. I decided to go and get the camera and see if I could capture a few shots of them. As it was I came out lucky and got a few pics that, as a point and shoot snapper, I was very pleased with.
It did feel a bit odd to click away as they earnestly went about creating the next froggy generation….
The same time this year there is no sign of any frogs as yet. I haven’t seen a single daffodil in bloom, the snowdrops are still out and I have scraped ice from my car window twice so far this week! By my estimates we are at least six weeks behind in the onset of spring.
The big question is, however, does this mean a lovely summer of no winds, clear skies and perfect diving to make up for the extended winter?
lovely pic Lou, oh and I have some dafodills