Counting down to the winter solstice

In five days' time it will be the shortest day of the year. Good to see life getting ready to make use of the longer daylight when it comes, even if the temperatures won't warm up for a couple of months.

Daffodil leaf shoots appearing among the grass and tamarisk mosses

Healthy-looking azalea buds. the flowers on this azalea don't open until June.

Lovely colours on the back of ivy leaves tangled up amongst honeysuckle

More daff shoots under a gorse bush

Springy turf moss

Otherwise known as Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus

New green on cowberry bush. You can see where it has been nibbled, probably by roe deer.

Winter colours of tamarisk moss

And new leaf shoots on the Den Rose