Why is it called the blues?  This month has just been grey but this morning a little piece of spring appeared.  Whilst walking down the drive to let the under gardener out of the property on day release I noticed that some Aconites were flouring just on the edge of the woodland garden.  I ordered just five plants three years ago.  The first year I thought that they had failed, then I noticed some leaf that I did not recognize, rushing to our neighbor opposite to look at his plants confirmed that they had survived and were coming thought.  The lack of flowers was disappointing but the following year we did get a couple of flowers and now 8 or 10 little yellow flowers are peeping through the leaves.  This has quite brightened my day and imbued me with new vigor.  On the strength of this the Doberman and I are off to walk the garden and make some plans for when it finally stops raining.