Vivid Violets

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Having finally got a half decent day today, I changed the batteries in my camera and took myself out into my somewhat windy garden. I have some beautiful, bright spring flowers in bloom - primroses and daffodils, but this little beauty was hiding under leaves and could almost have been overlooked. I can remember going out with my mum, dad and sisters at this time of year and picking violets which covered banks around fields but sadly, due to the chemicals which farmers use these days, they've all but disappeared from the wild. I was lucky enough to discover a bunch of these on the bank of a derelict house in my home village 20 years or so ago. I used to admire them when I walked into the village to do a bit of shopping but, on one occasion, I heard two men talking outside the house. It seemed it was going to be demolished and I overheard one of the men, presumably the owner of the house, talking to the other man who I assumed was a workman. He was instructing the workman to dig out the whole of the bank and put up wooden fencing. I was horrified to think that little patch of violets would be dug up so, on the way back home from the shop, I bent down and pretended I was sorting out the shopping in my bag, but quickly pulled up a root of violets. I popped it on top of a bunch of bananas that I had in the bag and took it home. As you can seen, the plant has flourished!