Hoping that you all enjoyed the festive season and now we are approaching getting back to normal (if we ever can), it is time to start planning the things that are important to you all in life and what you hope to achieve towards those goals.
With me the greatest concern (if this winter so far has been anything to go by) is to top up my wood store to keep us warm through next winter. It has been a cold start to the year and it is definitely not getting any warmer. Last night the temperature outside went down to minus eight C and by ten o’clock was still minus six with a wonderful sunny day.
Below are some of the shots I took first thing today before the sun (hopefully) gets round to melt it all.
10th.
When does a summerhouse become a winter wonderland? answer this morning with all the frost patterns on the windows, taken from the inside looking out.
As for the poor shrubs they have endured this for the last three days and though they look spectacular they must be hoping that better weather is around the corner.
12th.
Overnight the temperature went down to a really cold minus ten C. This then applied frost upon the frost as the previous day the temperature never went above freezing. Of course this meant I had to go out with the camera and capture a few different images than yesterdays, these two were the pick of the bunch. Especially the second one as I consider this one of the best shots I have ever taken, I just love how the frost is clinging to the spiders web and the complication of this web, not like your normal spiral effort. The backlight of the sun just gives it that little boost. Must admit I didn’t stay out long as it was still fairly cold, never mind heavy snow forecast in a couple of days and I can get out again with the camera.
17th.
Yesterday afternoon we had nearly three inches of snow in just over an hour and our view was a total white out. Then overnight the lowest temperature in the whole of the U.K. was Minus Fourteen C, just 15 miles up the road from us. I recorded on my min/max thermometer, minus Thirteen C , so we were just one degree off of being the coldest in Britain. When I went out and took todays shots it was a beautiful, still, sunny day, but the temperature was still minus ten, so I wasn’t out long.
This shot to show the depth of the snow on this fence post.
Was going to take the car up the hill to capture the Munro’s but didn’t fancy the road conditions even though the snow plough had been up.
Opposite the road junction is the entrance to a set of holiday let’s called Tom of Lude, this is their driveway up, need some good snow tyres to get up there.