Four degrees at 8:30am, and later sunny and warm enough to walk around without a coat and eat lunch outdoors.
The snow has gone ... let's hope until at least next November, and we can get on with the business of the month, which is watching little things grow.
Periwinkle clinging to the living rock beside the sentiero that leads up to Carmine Superiore.
As Gertrude S. Wister once wrote, "The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size".
For more close-ups of flowers, visit Macro Flower Pictures.
