
Snow picture -
Back Garden There's about 3-4" worth
here, not a lot compared to what some parts of the country received. It
fell between midnight (when I retired) and 5 am (when I woke up, noticed
the brightness around the curtains and had a little peek) on the 5th of
Feb, completely silently, there must have not been the slightest breath
of wind going by how the snow was piled deep on the most precarious of perches. |

Snow picture - In
the Bleak Midwinter Taken in Riverside Park
St. Neots shortly before dusk on the 2nd of Feb. We thought this was all
the snow we would be likely to get at that time, many years since we saw
this kind of scene in North Cambridgeshire. There was much more to come
however! |

Snow picture - Icy
road About 8 am on the road where I
live, this is really the gentlest of slopes, but every vehicle was finding
it a real struggle to get up this day. I wanted to get out for a walk in
case the snow disappeared quickly (I am a very big kid at heart when it
comes to snow). It reminded me of those not infrequent snow falls when I
was a kid when you couldn't tell where the pavement ended and the road started. |

Snow picture - Snowy
lane I am fortunate enough to live
in a village in the countryside and so lanes with little or no traffic are
not difficult to find. I liked this one for the extravagant amount of snow
still piled up on the tree branches. |

Snow picture - Pine
cones Cedar cones to be pedantic. Cones
on a Cedar of Lebanon in the church yard get dressed up in Christmas fashion. |

Snow picture - In
the bleak midwinter 2 I quite like
the melancholia of such bleak wintry scenes as this one. In about 6-8 weeks
time though, it will be green as spring starts to rush in. |

Snow picture - Small
shrub We are told to prune shrubs such
as rose bushes before the winter starts in order to prevent snow damage.
How superfluous that advice has been for a long time now. However this picture
reminds us why it's a useful precaution |

Snow picture - Poor
Violas Good strong Violas that is,
but poor as they are in reduced circumstances. These are in a container
outside my front door planted under a standard holly. They flower all through
the winter, taking each knock-back as it comes, but even as in this picture
- managing to raise a few bright happy flower faces to the world despite
the severity of the weather. |