"If Candlemas Day be fair & bright / Winter will have another fight / But if Candlemas Day be clouds & rain / Winter is gone & and will not come again" quotes Edith Holden an old English saying.
Well, well, well - these days we are almost drowning in rain! Yet I am not convinced that it was all we saw of winter, though I would be glad: the Schneekarte hangs on my peg (a card that shows which person has to do the snow shovelling - here in Bavaria we have no janitor, and I could not convince my flat neighbours to spend money on a person who will clear away the snow...)
On the table of my balcony you see dwarf iris (they smell so lovely), first snow drops, muscari "Blue Magic" (which my computer stubbornly tries to change into "Mascara").
In February we see that the days get longer and light comes back. The Celtic feast of Brigid celebrates the light - Brigid is the Goddess of Light, bright, radiant and sparkling.
In a book I found the proposal to contemplate a typical February question:
'What New wants to grow? What needs light, love and caring?' - good questions not only for the gardeners among us, I think.
