BEAUTY...

...can be found in the dirtiest of places. This lovely, delicate blue flower in amongst the litter and cigarette butts transforms a dirty corner at the side of a street into a place of beauty.

ONE LAST PUSH

That's what these dead beech leaves need - one more push from the new buds so they can fall off and enrich the earth for the next generation. The great circle of life!

TEXTURES

I like the combination of textures in this image. The smooth metal of the sprung hinge against the rough wood.

SPIKY!

This is another of the early flowering plants in my garden. I don't know what it's called but the leaves are very, very spiky. It's a little invasive and not easy to get rid of, but I don't mind that as it's in the dogs' part of the garden so it doesn't matter much. In the autumn it has the most amazing purple coloured berries with a pretty white bloom on them.

RENAISSANCE

Everywhere I look now I see spring, regrowth, renaissance. This is such an optimistic season even though it's still raining pretty well non-stop. The signs are all over the place and I'm finding it very difficult to find any of my lovely dead things now!

SNOWDROPS

A wonderful sign of spring. We used to have a huge amount of snowdrops in our garden but needed the ground where they lived to build a shed. So I dug them all up and transplanted them at the bottom of the garden. It took years for them to gain a hold again, but this year there are at least half a dozen clumps down there.

STRAINING

Signs of spring coming
Hydrangea looks up to the sky
Its buds straining