Snowdrops, snow days and blankets......

Hey well today saw me notice some flowers in the garden peeking thier heads up when I looked through the kitchen window - the signs of things to come later in the year. I love snowdrops - I'm lucky that I managed to get a lovely botanical watercolour of a patch of snowdrops at a garden show a few years ago. They are amoung my favourite flowers. We use to tell a lovely story about them at the Botanic Garden in Edinburgh to the children - the snow was the only 'colour' which would allow itself to be given the flowers when the world was first created and therefore - it was allowed to be the first to appear...or something like that. We love to visit the National Snowdrop Collection http://www.cambosnowdrops.com/ where the woodland walk is breathtaking and the snow drops steal your breath away - there's also a lovely beach at the bottom of the woodland so that's another bonus!
Today - we had our schools closed due to snow although it wasnt too heavy - but it did mean an afternoon cooking, fire on and lots of lovely crochet practice - I'm still not very good - but I am improving my circles, into squircles and some of them are even possibly square now. The aim to to make a blanket of some description and keep these fingers busy during the darker nights when I can't get out into my garden. My technique is not perfected yet but I think I've progressed a bit - I'm not terribly good at this kind of thing - although I think my enthusiasm takes over and I end up with some thing to show for all the hard work after a bit. I find cooking much easier - I'm more natural at that - but then again - I love to eat so I find that cooking satisfies my most basic needs!! I'm going to keep at the crocheting though as I'm finding it very theraputic.........