But .... love is definitely in the air and on the minds of the garden birds.
The nesting boxes have been regularly inspected over the last few days and I'm fairly certain we'll be seeing young blue tits being raised in the garden this Spring ....
the snow has gone, and we've had lots of drizzly wet stuff for the last day or two - all the fruit trees were dripping this morning .....
but at least all the bird water trays/baths got filled up with no effort from me.
This robin had a great time in his bath today making himself pretty
He wasn't too happy about being observed I think
OK a little more progress on the family group portrait. I've emailed this progress picture to my client tonight but I always get a bit twitchy about sending progress pics too soon - there is still a lot of refining to be done to hair and skintones etc ... but I promised an update today so I've sent it - hope it doesn't scare him too much
My mum-in-law has been poorly and admitted to hospital yesterday so no art yesterday and I'll be hospital visiting tomorrow. I'll work more on this at the weekend to have another update ready early next week. This is where I got to today:
