The thaw is here -for now- and these Crocuses (C. tommasinianus) keep on keeping on. They were flowering in the lawn before the snow came, were buried underneath it for several days and now show their heads like nothing happened.
 I don't usually quote myself in this diary but as I said in my entry about "Tommies" a couple of weeks ago: "They have an ethereal quality but they're tough: flowering in February they can withstand the last throes of winter".