safety in numbers

Today, for the first time this year, I felt like doing some gardening. I always think that I will get lots of jobs done during the winter, which is when proper gardeners do all their work, but then its too dark, too wet, too cold, or I just feel like hibernating indoors.

Today I thought I would just start gently, with a bit of cutting back of the dead stems of Japanese Anemone which were hiding some snowdrops, but then I just kept going and was out for a couple of hours. I'm sure it did me good; the garden looks better for it, anyway.

I found these snails firmly attached to a wall. They must be hiding from the song thrush which is singing so beautifully in the mornings from the top of the big holly bush outside the kitchen window...