A sunny day in February at the Cosmeston Lake

It's been sunny for a couple of days here.  Our garden is in a mess, needed to tidy up of the old dead plants and stuff.  Looking close to the ground, new green leaves of the wild strawberry, mint and so many weeds are coming through the dead leaves, already!  Anyway, I have started gardening on the sunny Sunday, but it was far more to be done...  It didn't look that I had spent a whole afternoon for the gardening.

It was still sunny today, so I went out to the Cosmeston Lake near by my house for sketching.

The Lakeside looked still winterly.  The thermometer showed 7 ℃, but quite a lot of people were walking in pairs, with small children, with dogs.  An elderly pair were sitting on a bank facing the lake.  You could hear the children laughing, crying, near by the playing area next to a small woodland.  It was sunny anyway; people were enjoying the beginning of the spring.

The entrance of the woodland next to the playing area.  The ground was muddy, which was stamped with dog pows and Wellies; obviously here is a dog-walkers' favourite spot.

Inside the wood land of deciduous trees, consisted mostly of beech and ash, which was airy and bright.  The fallen leaves have almost gone back to the soil.  On the upper side, slightly left, in the middle, slightly left, you can see a dot, which is a bird nest.  I'm not sure whether it's from the last year or a bird pair recently made it.  But I've seen birds like pigeons holding a branch in its beak.  They are preparing for their new family, which means the spring is coming very soon!

Having come out of the woodland, the sun was brighter.  I saw a cherry blossom tree, standing freely in front of the woodland.  Look!  The red buds are awaiting the warm days.