George Orwell's thoughts on spring in the city

Re-reading Orwell's short essay, Some thoughts on the Common Toad, which you can read in full here, I was inspired by the following quote from it to take a few Spring pictures;

 The point is that the pleasures of spring are available to everybody, and cost nothing. Even in the most sordid street the coming spring will register itself by some sign or other; if it is only a brighter blue between the chimney pots or the vivid green of an elder sprouting on a blitzed site.

Greater Celandine growing by the roadside

Ash bud burst in the Harringay Passage

Dandelions growing in the cracks of a front yard

Dandelions and Green alkanet in a ladder brick planter

As the kids like to say, and I'm sure Orwell would undoubtably agree with, don't forget to get outside and touch some grass this week.