snow and flowers

April showers -- well, snow showers. The pond by the workplace is surrounded by white, and itself a deep silver, reflecting the sky, and behind it the dark trees are outlined in white as the fat snowflakes drift downward.

To be sure, the violet and pale purple crocuses, and the blue dwarf iris, did look charming in a white landscape, with their little caps of white. And the afternoon not only saw the snow melt, but the scilly grown enough that its blue flowers are out.

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