Crocuses and first glimmers of Spring – The Yorkshire Post says

IT IS a reflection of these times that the simple pleasures, like sightings of the first crocuses of the year in Yorkshire, can leave a spring in the step of so many people.
By YP Comment
Published 2nd Feb 2021, 11:38 BST

Take the yellow petals shimmering in the sun’s reflection at Kirkstall Abbey in Leeds – their flowering would barely flicker with passers-by in normal times.

Now their presence is a small source of optimism as families, fatigued by nearly a year of lockdowns and Covid restrictions, look forward to longer – and warmer – days after in the wake of one of the most interminable, and depressing, winters of living memory.

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And while this week’s weather looks set to blanket flowers in snow, the splash of colour in parks and gardens offers a ray of hope that better times lie ahead thanks to the gradual changing of the seasons, new-found awareness of the environment, as evidenced by the number of locked down Britons taking part in the Big Garden Birdwatch, and the successful rolling out of the Covid vaccine.

The first crocuses of the year are begininng to appear at Kirkstall Abbey. Photo: Simon Hulme.The first crocuses of the year are begininng to appear at Kirkstall Abbey. Photo: Simon Hulme.
The first crocuses of the year are begininng to appear at Kirkstall Abbey. Photo: Simon Hulme.

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