Madness and flowers

I have a confession to make. I missed a day this week, it just slipped my mind what with trying to make half term interesting for Noodles while looking after a sicky Treestump so I have more than one photo from Thursday to make up..

First 17th Feb.. "wearing his clothes" do you like the Knightly pyjamas?

So on to the 19th and a lovely day suggested a walk, and some ball play, in the park. We knew there were snowdrops there but then Noodles spotted a purple flower and he insisted I see it. Turned out to be the tiniest, most delicately shaded crocus I think I've ever seen which was a good test of the camera's macro function. It was at most 2 inches high. Most of the shots were blurred as the petals were difficult to focus on but I think this one worked reasonably well.
I also took some shots of the snowdrops which were easier to focus on but perhaps harder to get something looking interesting.

and finally just because...