Signs Of New Life
First Snowdrops in Wapping
Even now, in the depths of Winter, there is plant life stirring. As I travelled around the East End over the past week in the wet and cold, I kept my eyes open for new life and was rewarded for my quest by the precious discoveries that you see here. Fulfilling my need for assurance that we are advancing in our passage through the year, each plant offers undeniable evidence that, although there may be months of Winter yet to come, I can look forward to the spring that will arrive before too long.
Hellebores in Shoreditch
Catkins in Bethnal Green
Catkins in Weavers’ Fields
Quince flowers in Spitalfields
Cherry blossom in Museum Gardens
Netteswell House is the oldest dwelling in Bethnal Green
Aconites in King Edward VII Memorial Park in Limehouse
Cherry Blossom near Columbia Rd
Hellebores in Spitalfields
Spring greens at Spitalfields City Farm
The gherkin and the artichoke
Cherry blossom in Itchy Park
Soft fruit cuttings at Spitalfields City Farm
Seedlings at Spitalfields City Farm
Cherry blossom at Christ Church
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Thank you Gentle Author. Lively and lovely.
Uplifting signs of hope and renewal in these uncertain times.
Thank you Gentle Author.
Lovely pics. The sight of the first snowdrops always gladdens my heart
Thanks, GA, this is most cheering! The Cambridge Botanic Garden is my best resource on these chilly days, and it’s so heartening to see the hellebores, snowdrops and even daphnes beginning to flower.
A spiritually uplifting set of pictures at this time of the year – superb. Thank you
Seeing the artichokes took me back to my time in Istanbul, when there appeared to be a vendor on each residential street corner selling and preparing the spiny vegetables, ready for the cook!
Lovely post, particularly for those of us in New England where things are still dormant. Thank you!
Snowdrops, truly are one of may favourite flowers and never cease to give me joy when I see them. They are, to me, an encouraging sign that winter may be on the wane!
Ahhhh yes ! We suffer these cold days with the comfort of knowing that all this beauty is to come soon . Thanks for all the work in bringing it to our eyes .
Thank you from someone in central Alberta, where it is dark until 8 a.m. and snow piles high in the garden!
How I love the chest tomb, and in a walled church yard! I presume a church yard, and not a cemetary.
How I hope I am buried in just such a sepulcher, how I would adore it!
“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” – George Eliot
Ah, sigh.
Beautiful are these views of the coming spring. I am looking forward to it. But as I write this, outside the world is drowning in snow….
Love & Peace
ACHIM