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This page was all done back in the warmth.  I’ve been playing with making very rudimentary prints by drawing onto sticky-backed foam sheets.  My friend Felicity leant me a book about rubber stamp printing, and mentioned this technique, and it took my fancy.  I really like having ink-stained fingers, it makes me feel like a real artist (pencil is quite clean, really!).

And a still-life of a jar of snowdrops on the kitchen bunker (pencil and watercolour).  They were such a luminous presence in our kitchen – I felt like they should glow when the lights were switched off at night. 

So, that is snowdrop season done for this year.  Very soon the yellows of March will take over, the buttercups and aconites and daffodils (maybe even a dandelion! The thrill!).  The snowdrops will be forgotten, but they are not idle, they are gathering their muster to delight us again next winter, just when we need them the most.  I thought, for that reason (because they give us such a gift when we are most depleted), that they deserved their own blog post.  I’ll do a rest-of-February update very soon.