Snowdrop

Thank you for all your well wishes yesterday, they cheered me up immensly.  Not only was I feeling poorly it was my birthday so I was feeling particularly sorry for myself.

I still have this wretched cold, but the sun is shining today which makes one feel so much better.

As I haven't been out to take you on a daily glimpse of London I am taking you for a glimpse from my window.  A pot of snowdrops on the window ledge.  They are not only pretty but an old unusual variety that I bought at a fair in the Chelsea Physic Garden a couple of years ago.

Snowdrops

A grasshopper's view of the snowdrops a couple of weeks ago. They're finished now and the daffodils are slowly arriving. In the UK most snowdrops are found around churches, graveyards and priories.
In medieval times the church planted them for the feast of candelmass. This feast for the purification of the virgin mother takes place 40 days after Christmas.
Whether fact or myth I don't know, but certainly is where you will see wonderful displays of these delicate flowers