spring

Not that it was at all spring-like today - very cold, very wet - and indeed tomorrow night a quite definite frost is forecast - but the leaves were doing their very best to unfurl from the damp trees.   I spent a very uncomfortable ten minutes or so trying to find the best way to take photographs of these soaked young leaves - a macro lens? a telephoto lens?  flash? and diving indoors to change from one to the other.   Some of the pictures ended up interestingly over-exposed, and gave off the impression that as well as rain there was a thick Scottish mist: this, however, just about conveys the idea that it looks as though it was quite hard work for the leaves to make it out for Easter.