Ice Sculptures

Here comes the fun part after the snow… The ice.

Think I’d rather have the snow thankyouverymuch.

This I noticed earlier…

The snow on the roof is melting, hitting the dish and then dripping into the pot below:

This twig is a Raspberry cane, it is in a nearby pot leaning over... I wonder if it will survive??

Some icicles by the landing window… We’ve an epic one which you can you only just make out if you look out the corner of the window… Sadly the camera can’t quite catch it, I’d guess it’s around the 3/4 foot mark.

It's slightly warmer today so we had a go at clearing the path up to our house... Cleared my elderly neighbour's too, she has health carers coming so it should at least help them a little.
Let's hope we have a miracle and it all melts today!

Look what we made with the icy snow...

He has pride of place on our wall as you come through the gate, wonder how long he'll last.

Snow, please go away. You've already ruined my plans for two weekends now... At this rate there will be no Christmas at Gwirrel's house!

Here we go again

So, the snow arrived… I suppose I ought to be grateful that the initial forecast for snow every day this week didn’t happen…

I used to love snow, but something’s changed. I think earlier this year just ruined all sense of excitement at seeing the white stuff. Now I just dread a repeat of January and the battle with the snow.

Looking at photos of this time last year is shocking to see how much more life was still in the garden. I still had Sweet Peas on the 29th!

Early morning shot before the sun had come around the houses.

There isn’t a great deal left out there to photograph

Birdies in the Snow

We’ve had a fair few visitors today, not as many species as I had hoped for though but it is likely that some must’ve popped in without me realising as I didn’t spend long enough watching the birds.
I’d hoped to see the Redpoll and Siskins again, but no signs of either. I did catch a brief glimpse of a Song Thrush but the photos were just too poor to post.

Very blue… taken early morning in poor light… whoops.

A Goldfinch surveys the garden

The Rose shrub has almost been flattened

Bullfinch and friends come in for breakfast

The Blackbirds are also hungry

At times I had up to 7 just in my garden, not even counting them also in neighbouring gardens.

A Robin comes close, but is quickly chased off by the Blackbirds

Sparrows search for insects on a neighbour's house

Plenty of mouths to feed, this is why my seeds go down so quickly!

I have finally removed those bamboo canes for the Beans!! So now I may be more inclined to take shots of the birds… They were frozen into the soil and I snapped them out (by accident) so I guess they’ll be a few inches shorter next year… Whoops.

A charm of Goldfinch arrive...

Little wonder why they're called a 'charm'

For once they elbow out the Sparrows, who are left to collect fallen seeds on the ground.

The Robins are often seen on the feeders... They're fast learners!

Trees across the front

The City... See the hills to the right of the photo? That's the dry Ski slope... Guess they have the real thing now!

The snowman building didn't work out too well... The snow was powdering and we couldn't roll it. So I had to kind of scoop up the snow and mould it to shape. The heads were difficult to make but we got there in the end.

My Snowman.

My brother's snowman... Looks very worried!

Little carrot freshly plucked from the ground... The larger ones were frozen in!

We’ve had a couple of light snow showers during the day, but nothing major… I had hoped to take macro snowflake shots but there wasn’t enough to be able to find them easily. Another time maybe.

I hope the snow hasn't been too bad in your areas, and that you're all safe and warm!