The days are lengthening slowly, winter storms come and go, the sun feels warmer out of the wind.
Sometimes it feels like spring and then the icy arctic weather returns.
Walking in the winter trees at Kingston Lacey in Dorset the snowdrops are beginning to cover the ground with a white carpet of tiny flowers – not yet at their peak of whiteness but a magical sight nevertheless.
Suddenly we look up and the sky has changed from blue to a dark metallic grey and it’s raining again. Our moment in the sun in the snowdrops was brief but beautiful.
