Is this a weed? What is it called?

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Do you think it is this:        Creeping Cinquefoil (Potentilla reptans)

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Another perennial creeping plant, looking very similar, both in leaf and flower, to a buttercup, but belonging to a different family, Rosaceae, and therefore also similar to a strawberry. Differs from a buttercup in having separate toothed leaflets rather than a divided leaf, and the flowers are not shiny. Creeps by stolons, rooting at the nodes, as strawberry runners.

England is not all grey and black

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This photo was taken in Wiltshire, just to the west of Stonehenge, in late February 2005 when I was on my way to visit a friend on the Devon/Cornwall border. I just had to stop and record the beautiful subtle colours, the soft blue of the sky and the bare field made milky by the chalk underneath. Uniting the realms of heaven and earth, the bare solitary tree stood sentinel over the expectant land.

I’m glad I just read someone say that England was all grey and black because I remembered this photo and I can immerse myself in the colours and the tranquility again.

… and safe inside ….

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Snow!