25/01/2026
Snowdrops showing themselves this morning. Snowdrops represent hope, purity, new beginnings, and rebirth, announcing spring's arrival and triumph over winter's darkness.
To A Snowdrop by William Wordsworth
Lone Flower, hemmed in with snows and white as they.
But hardier far, once more I see thee bend thy forehead, as if fearful to offend,
Like an unbidden guest. Though day by day, storms, sallying from the mountain-tops, waylay.
The rising sun, and on the plains descend; Yet art thou welcome, welcome as a friend whose zeal outruns his promise! Blue-eyed May.
Shall soon behold this border thickly set
With bright jonquils, their odours lavishing on the soft west-wind and his frolic peers; Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, chaste Snowdrop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years!