What Beauty can be found in the Winter Garden?

This morning in the garden, I have found, Snowdrops, Skimmia, Paperwhites, Christmas Box, winter Honeysuckle, Violets, Primroses, Rosemary, Ivy, Fennel....the scent is amazing. Even in the depths of winter it is still possible to find beauty in the garden. 
Today we are warned of snow to come and so I thought I should see what is in the garden before it is covered?? The wind is bitter here today, although there is glorious sunshine. Winter is a difficult time, the dark and cold ....so a few thoughts about things you might do to cheer yourself and stay connected with your garden.

• Take a walk in the garden or out in nature and look for the small signs of spring which are already there. ​
• Start making plans for the growing season ahead. spend a happy afternoon or two looking through seed catelogues.
• Read some lovely garden or nature books...I am reading In Your garden Again by Vita Sackville West. On 11th January 1953 her entry champions the beauty of small delicate flowers....so in keeping with what I have found in the garden today. She is talking about the little Cyclamen Persicum...a scented wild form of Cyclamen from the East Mediterranian which has to be grown indoors, but is scented and has smaller flowers than the more common florists Cyclamen....now I need to find where you can buy them! 
• Bring some flowers into the house....if you have forgotten to plant forced Hyacinth bulbs in the autumn you buy them ready to flower soon from garden centres which you can pot up yourself or already potted up in gorgeous bowls and containers from me!
• Darkness and cold have to be countered with warmth, beauty, scent,.....cosy knits, warming food, light, laughter and gentle companionship.