Spring is in the air - maybe

A cold, dull day today, but at least neither wet nor windy. I walked down town this morning and though it wasn’t great photography weather I took quite a few pictures. For some reason several of them didn’t download properly and I lost them.
 
My Blip today is of a clump of crocuses coming up through the foliage of a Pampas Grass, along Taylor’s Brae, which is the sloping footpath I take if I’m going down to the Tesco end of town, which I was today.  Pampas Grass seeds around here, along the bottom of the walls.
 
I was hoping to find spare lead for a small propelling pencil which I last used countless ages ago. I found it in a box and thought I would like to use it again - it’s a very small one, which must take very slim lead! Nowhere in Oban sells such a thing. I’m going to Glasgow at the weekend and will look there. I discovered later during my internet searching that the term ‘propelling pencil’ is now redundant - somewhere between then and now the name has changed to ‘mechanical pencil’!
 
Caught up with some reading of Geoffrey Fletcher’s 1966 book, ‘London’s River’ this afternoon. How things have changed in sixty years! And now the sound of chainsaws is coming from the next street - I wonder what trees are being cut down now!
 
Quote of the Day: ‘Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill.