Candlemas/Imbolc

It being the day before Candlemas today, I've taken my Christmas decorations down. As we're both suffering from covid, this took the form of 'takes down tinsel, rests for two hours, takes down tree, rests for another two hours, takes ornaments off the tree outside, rests again.'

It's all down and packed up now, but goodness knows how long it will be before we get the boxes upstairs to the attic.

I'm having a little rest atm, but when I can, I'll put the this is not a Christmas tree, it's a spring tree" up.

This, along with a single string of white fairy lights, is my 'something around here has to be bright and beautiful until the flowers come back' mental health resource until it gets light and bright enough outside for me to feel I don't need it.

February is the longest month of the year (we don't usually get even snowdrops til March) and this really helps get through it.