Fleeting?

Crocus flowers are often quite short-lived, often being blasted by wind and rain or 'cooked' in unseasonably warm weather.   However, if you grow a range of species the season is much longer and this can also be true when you grow different forms of a single species.  My first Crocus tournefortii of the year flowered (and featured on blip) on 26 September.   Here, almost two months later, is the last flower - from a different form.  I still have Crocus laevigatus in flower in the garden and the noses of the first spring species are beginning to poke through in the cold frame.  

Another flashlight blip on a cold, grey and very wet day.   Meg did eventually get a walk ... at 9pm this evening.   The day wasn't wasted though.  I have begun to sort my admin corner in the living room which has involved some furniture moving and a fair bit of cleaning.  There's some rubbish and a growing pile of recycling.   Very much a work in progress atm.  Boxes and 'stuff' everywhere but with time on my hands this week and 'indoors weather' I'm going to keep up the momentum.

A physio appointment this morning reported further progress with mobility in my damaged finger.  I now have a spring loaded clamp to help with straightening one joint but it also holds the top joint straight and that's the one which I have trouble bending!   After a spell in the clamp, the top joint is very stiff and painful to bend.  Hey ho - I'll keep working at it.  The finger will never be pretty but the more mobility and grip, the better.