The world scrubbed clean

After weeks of dismal weather, the sun showed its face this morning and it was a pleasure to go out.  With the wind whipping the branches of the trees and the clouds scudding past, it felt as though the world had been scrubbed clean. I set off for a trudge round the fields - still very wet underfoot but the bright sunshine lifted the spirits and there was a hint of spring with the first snowdrops and celandines tentatively showing their faces.