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Hazel catkins (Corylus avellana)
With the bad weather keeping us indoors I find I have had time to catch up with reading my e-mails and my friends’ posts and to write another one of my own.
Before the snow arrived I made another attempt at photographing our hazel catkins and found a few female flowers as well.
Hazel catkins
My current camera is not at all good at close-ups or macro shots and so this is the best I can do.
Another attempt at the lichen on the Horse-chestnut tree
I think I am going to have to give this up!
I rather like these lichens but again, they are not in focus.
Yet more blurred lichen!
On Monday we had snow showers all day. Stronger spells of sunshine at midday melted all that had fallen on the driveway and paths but didn’t shift the snow on the flowerbeds and grass. Richard took Elinor to Norwich for her acupuncture appointment and found that there had been no snow there at all. The fountain outside the hotel where Elinor has her acupuncture was spectacularly frozen.
Frozen fountain
I had a very quick walk round the house to see that all was well. It was much too cold to go any further.
I liked these mini icicles on the tool-shed
Witch-hazel flowers dusted by snow
This was their swan-song; they are now shrivelled and frozen.
I looked down the garden. The small pond was completely frozen.
I looked over the hedge to the field beyond.
I was chilled now so I made my way back to the front door passing the bell on the way.
Poor cockerel! He’s looking a little worse for wear!
We had a lot of snow on Tuesday night and on Wednesday morning I had to phone my mother to cancel our usual shopping trip. She was fine and had all she needed for the time being but gave me a short list of things she would like fairly soon.
There had been no wind overnight and snow was heaped on telephone wires and windowsills and every tiny branch and twig.
You can see our new gates at the end of the drive in this photo. Richard was able to paint them last week.
In the photo you can see the dangling cable that provides us with our broadband!
We have stayed at home while the winds have picked up and blown most of the snow from the trees and caused deep drifts everywhere. The roads to the other villages and our local towns are all blocked. The depth of the snow in the garden has reduced, not from melting but by being scoured away. We are hoping that we will be able to get to town later this morning before the next snow arrives. We need to buy supplies and collect medication for me and for Mum. Our gas delivery hasn’t arrived and we have nearly run out. I don’t fancy a few days without central heating! We have turned the thermostat down and the water heater off to conserve power.
The joys of living in the countryside!
My music selection today is ‘Song to the Moon’ from Dvorak’s opera Rusalka sung by (I believe) Lucia Popp. I chose this because we have a full moon today.
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