Looking for light in the gloom

Just as I'd started surfacing from a recent viral infection, I've developed a streaming cold.... so any photo opportunities are limited to the house and garden. Today it's the turn of the glowing Hamamellis Mollis in the front garden.
R and I continue to watch developments in the US with horror. And now that horror includes the prospects for Gaza and Ukraine. I have been reading about some initiatives taken by Democrats in the US to push back against Trump's worst excesses; that is something.