February can seem a low point for life. The signs of early spring are cribbed with fears of snow and frost to come, so the sun on our back seems fearfully precipitous.
Luckily, other things are not so fearful and flourish in the most unlikely places.
The photo was taken of recent wire fence, ugly in its utility, fencing in a slab of shorn and tidied land. However the lichen and the moss were not disdainful of the plastic coated wire . They sensed opportunity, a habitat in which to grow and each intersection was frilled with light green life, finding a safe and unlikely foothold.
February is full of modest, opportunistic life!
Cathy's real country garden 
I’m always happier once this month has been and gone. xx
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Me too. The patience with winter is all used up! Xx
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beautifully written , Cathy; I love how ‘the lichen and moss were not disdainful of ….’ which reminds me of a joke a colleague made about a girl in my class called Lichen . “She grows on you after a while.” he said 🙂
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Slow but tenacious!
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