I have had a complaint that my blog this winter has shown The Cairngorms to much associated with snow, which I consider a bit unfair, cos that is us. When the people down south moan about temperatures dropping to a minus 6, hardly a week has gone by this winter when we have not gone down to such temperatures. A couple of inches of snow is nothing to us, it is only when we get conditions like this last week that it is getting close to unusual.
The snow came late to us this week, but when it did we had our fair share of it (still snowing today), 4″ one night followed by 4″ the next & down to minus 9C. Most unusually it closed the village primary school & Pitlochry High school, which spells bad news for us. The snow plough has a priority route of up our glen to allow the school bus to take home the remote children further up it. With the school closed, no snow plough for two days until the priority routes were cleared. This caused a very large drift on the road above our house & eventually when the plough arrived it couldn’t cope & took two snow ploughs & a JCB over an hour to clear the 100yds of the drift, to cold for me to venture out with the camera to photograph it, sorry.
Yesterday we had a small window with no snow & we walked down the village to collect some bread, as The Mill had baked. Hence the chance to get the shots below, walking along the River Tilt, very pretty it was to.
First four shots are of the gin clear water & the snow covered rocks, with hints of ice formed in the still flowing sections. The other is of the tree lined, snow covered walk beside the river, a most enjoyable walk. All photos taken with my old basic camera, ordering the NEW one tomorrow. 🙂
As we enter spring I hope to give you shots & items on things other than snow, but who knows the winter may not want to let go just yet.
