Anna Loves... The First Days of Spring

I make no secret of my country-bumpkin tendencies. Although I love living in cities for the ease of walking everywhere and having plenty to do, a not-so-small part of me prefers the relative quietness and open spaces of the countryside. My favourite flowers lean towards daffodils and daisies over peonies and roses; I have a favourite tree (I don't know why, it just is); and my first instinct when the sun appears isn't to find a pub with a garden, but somewhere green and open. Sunday being one of the better days we've had so far this year, and a quick trip back to the family homestead on the cards, I made the most of the changing seasons, romping across the fields between villages along the way and enjoying the blue skies and ever-present daffodils in all sorts of places - grassy banks, hedgerows, the chicken pen chez maman... That's not to say that Bristol is lacking in daffodils, but they seem far more planned here than they do 'out in the sticks'

 Banks of daffs on the roadside

 Stopping by my favourite tree

 The latest residents of the chicken enclosure

A Black Rock (not pictured), a Speckled, and a Bluebell