With the weather being just as grey and cold as you would expect at this time of the year, I entertained myself by taking these colourful pictures as some sort of therapy. Maybe actually eating all the candy and painting some pictures would be even more beneficial?
It is probably not meant to be face, and even less an entertainment to passers-by, but does it not look like an astonished face? I wonder what it's looking at ...
Traces of spring are still rare at the moment (looking for those in January was very optimistic, I agree), but there were some green bits and pieces, livening up the overall brown impression of the forest: