Life on the farm carried on without me while I went walking in the beautiful White Peak. It has been lovely and sunny and the snowdrops are all in full bloom. One minute there is snow...next spring flowers have arrived.
Once when on holiday in the Italian Alps in March, spring arrived over the course of the week. We were there for the ski-ing and conditions weren't perfect for the sport. The snow was frozen in the morning and slush by lunch time. However, walking around the beautiful resort on paths through woods and along the river, the change during the week was spectacular. Sadly I have no photos to show you of thie event but primroses appeared everwhere, in full bloom, replacing the snow.
Here the snow has left all the grass brown and it takes a long time for our spring flowers to push through. I have planted many bulbs and the number that flower is depleted each year. The last 100 daffodils have been put in boxes in the greenhouse and I will pick them as cut flowers. Such is life at Sandalfarm.
(the picture shows the land at it's best...)
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