Is this spring?

Soil to go
Originally uploaded by davidjennings

A delivery
Originally uploaded by davidjennings.

As you can see from the last couple of days' photos, the sun is out. People are out in shirtsleeves, and there's a stong whiff of spring in the air. Less than two weeks ago there was snow on the ground.

This morning some of the old topsoil was loaded into a lorry and taken away (it seems a bit of shame that this good black earthy stuff is being replaced with a surface of pebbles and shale, but I'm sure there is some grander design at work). Then (lower picture) there was a delivery — still unpacked as I write.