From French Brittany in February

Spring is here, clumps of celandine glow golden in the grassy verges of the steep pathways leading from the river Vilaine up to the medieval centre of La Roche-Bernard.
A totally photogenic part of Brittany, the southern part near the Gulf of Morbihan.
I arrived here on St Valentine's Day (appropriately) to be met by David in the railway station of Vannes.
After a short drive we reached the marina here in La Roche-Bernard, and there was our boat Stroemhella, idling at her moorings...
A new chapter begins.
Below: shining celandine ; Stroemhella at her mooring ; hazel catkins...

Beyond Stroemhella the steep bank of the river Vilaine.

And this is spring in northern Europe.