Yes. Hurrah!

Yes, we’ve had a good week for colourful dawns.

Streaky peach coloured dawn sky behind a silhouetted line of trees.

North Devon 05.28 and there’s an evil easterly wind out there this morning.

Blossom on the pear tree.

A tangle of spring green bramble foliage hosting a small cerulean butterfly

Holly Blue butterfly on brambles on the allotment this morning.

Streaks of apricot, golden and pale peach coloured clouds behind silhouetted trees on the dawn horizon with a pale blue sky above.

But soft! what light through yonder window breaks?

A view of a silvery pre sunrise sky above shadowy silhouetted trees on the horizon, all blurred by a light mist.

Misty start on the North Devon coast this morning.

Evening stroll on the North Devon coast yesterday.
After a warm day, the tide was returning, a light mist was rising, and the sun was setting.

Gorgeous Fritillaria imperialis ‘William Rex’ at RHS Rosemoor yesterday.
They always seem too exotic to be flowering so early in the year!

Today, the Magnolias at RHS Rosemoor, North Devon, looked fabulous against the blue sky.

Another stunning dawn this morning accompanied by vociferous birdsong, the robins foremost.

It’s definitely not very spring like.

The earlier stripe of first light turned into this -

North Devon, 05.30. A stripe of dawn in the sky.

👏👏👏

A closed leaf bud at the tip of a blackcurrant twig.

A newly opened set of leaves, mid green tinged with amber, shooting on a trained blackberry cane.

A bud on a pear tree about to unfurl into leaf.

Fully opened emerald green redcurrant foliage.

Signs of life on the allotment today: blackcurrant buds; blackberry leaves; pear tree shoots; redcurrant foliage.

A sky of coral and fuchsia pink behind a line of trees, silhouetted on the horizon.

Stunner of a dawn sky this morning.

Children at an Edinburgh hospital painted pebbles for the penguins at Edinburgh Zoo and will be able to watch them choose and present them to their mates via livestream.

#SundayMorning

A sprig of creamy white tree blossom on a slender stem with unfurling pale green foliage.

Sprigs of creamy white tree blossom against a soft blue spring sky.

Snowy Mespilus flowering in the spring sunshine.
At a quick glance, it reminds me of apple blossom.

A hop plant stem, with leaves opening, growing up through grass.

My hop plants are stirring into life.

A stem of Rosemary bush with tiny lilac blue flowers and unopened buds.

Flowers on the Rosemary - and this one is in deep shade at this time of year. I don’t recall them this early before.

Short slender mid green stems bearing blue Muscari flowers in a bed of mixed bright green foliage.

Grape Hyacinths might not be the showiest of plants but they’re a welcome early splash of colour in the border.

A clump of pale lemon primrose flowers, with bold yellow centres, against mid green foliage.

Despite the soggy winter, the clumps of primroses in the shady border under the trees are going from strength to strength.

Small pink tinged white flowers of the strawberry plant peeping out from under new mid green foliage.

A single flat white strawberry flower with yellow centre.

While weeding the veg bed this morning, I found a couple of strawberry plants in flower.

Ooh, no.

A silhouetted line of trees on the horizon, behind which the sky rises from rose pink through striped neutral shades to pale blue-grey.

More muted colours to the dawn this morning.

A clear sky at dawn, with pale blue/grey at the top fading down through gold to apricot at the horizon, where there is a silhouetted row of trees.

Beautiful sunrises these last few mornings.

The clumps of primroses in the garden are putting on a brave display, despite the ground being cold and waterlogged.
They take me back to my childhood because they were one of the first flowers I learned to identify.

A very pale dawn sky, with a narrow band of soft apricot and lemon behind the trees on the horizon, fading up through paler lilac blue above.

Pale and washy dawn in North Devon this morning but at least it’s neither icy nor wet.

A cloudless sky fading from deep blue at the top, through paler blue to apricot just above the silhouetted tree line on the horizon.

What a difference to wake up to a clear sky!
North Devon dawn, just before 07.00 this morning.