The darling buds of January

I seem have a habit of accumulating pictures on my phone for weeks at a stretch, before I finally take the time to download them, and then it may be even longer before I actually get around to using them in some way.

So it is that by the time I post this - which I took on a very cold morning, amazed at the optimism of this hedge - fresh buds and leaves are seriously old news. Ah well. It's still pretty.