If there are reasons to look forward to spring, this is one of them...

The little plant shows only a few moldy leaves throughout the year, resembling an abandoned and unhappy heart. In the first days of spring, everything changes.

Out of the black soil and among the sickly green leaves emerge some threads, at the ends of which exhibit a color dear to me, blue with purple irradiations.

I think that's where the common name I know comes from, as people in my childhood village called it. Violet!

It's always been the harbinger of spring, and I didn't have a big problem with its name.

I wrote a few days ago about spring flowers, and my violet was there: A Few Violets

Thus, I received, in comments, everything I should have known about this wonderful flower from our colleague @x-rain, whom I thank once again.

Floral beauty of spring!

This violet plant was blossoming among the dry leaves and snow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemone_hepatica

First, I found out that these flowers are of the genus "anemone," which I love very much.

Anemone hepatica (syn. Hepatica nobilis), the common hepatica, is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to woodland in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. This herbaceous perennial grows from a rhizome. Source

Anemone hepatica grows 5–15 cm (2–6 in) high. Leaves and flowers emerge directly from the rhizome, not from a stem above ground.
The leaves have three lobes and are fleshy and hairless. They are 7–9 cm (2+3⁄4–3+1⁄2 in) wide and 5–6 cm (2–2+1⁄4 in) long. The upper side is dark green with whitish stripes, and the lower side is violet or reddish brown. The leaves emerge during or after flowering and remain green through winter.
The blue, purple, pink, or white flowers appear in winter or spring. They have five to ten oval, showy sepals and three green bracts. Source

Well, I've abused others' descriptions, but I think they did it much better and more accurately than I would have. On top of that, I want this blog to remain where I return to every spring to reminisce.

I learned that these flowers can be several colors: blue, purple, pink, or white. This blue color is the variety Anemone hepatica var. japonica!

I now know that Anemone hepatica var. japonica blooms every early spring in my little backyard.

Beyond the incredible blue, my favorite color, I sometimes see iridescences of purple, and when I say purple, I immediately think of this extraordinary song...

Spring is here, and that means a new beginning and the rebirth of hope in this unpredictable life and world.

My little violet, an anemone, knows nothing about the world but, perhaps unwittingly, makes it more beautiful!

I rely mostly on photos in all my blogs. Words don't help me as much as photos.

I always start with photos when I want to write a blog. Photos remind me of places, events, and feelings that turn into words. When I post on Photography Lovers, the words have even less importance; they are a companion to the photos I want to show. This often makes the story uninteresting, yet it is necessary; otherwise, the photos would merely be a series of ordinary images.

I make this statement as a plea to those reading not to over-judge the text and to focus on the photos.

A wise saying goes that a photograph is worth a thousand words, but I don't think so.

Everything depends on the beholder.