It's winter...

[byslantedlight]

We had more snow yesterday, though it dripped and dropped from the trees quickly enough in the sunshine - but last night the temperatures dropped, and according to the Uni of Cambs. Digital Technology Group who run a weather station on a roof in Cambridge, it's even now currently -6.8C! At 11am in the morning! With the sun out! It's never that cold here, even in the middle of the night with the sun in! *g* Apparently it was -13.8 at 7am this morning.

I knew it was cold when I glanced out the window and saw that the spider webs were all frosted up - and then went to collect the milk from the front doorstep...







The sheep are in the paddock (sorry - field!) across the road, and some seem to have been given bells - I love to hear them jangling around, it's a lovely sound!



I looked up and saw that the rooks had settled in their usual distant trees - but how much more stunning do they look in all this winter white! (You might have to click on that one to get the effect though, of them all dotted against the sky...)


Oh, I do like frost-on-snow, and proper dry winter's days, and... just - yeay! What I should really do is get my bum in gear and go for a walk... instead I might show you some pics I took on a brief but pretty walk yesterday too...










Yeay winter! *g*

Comments

[scherwood]

Beautiful pics~ looks really lovely! :D

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It is rather lovely *happy sigh* My favourite kind of weather! *g*

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the piccies. It all looks amazingly pretty - I love the bare trees especially.

We had minus 5 here last night, so not as cold as you guys - plus we didn't get the snow, so it's not as cold generally. And today it's all sunny and cold and crisp - I love it when it's like this! *bounces like a complete fool*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I love it when it's like this too! *bounces and bounces* *g* Apparently Bucks. managed -18C, which is pretty impressive... Doesn't seem right that they're only saying it was the coldest night since December 2010 (though hmmmn, I suppose that was the Big Snow...) - I'm sure I don't remember it being so cold before, whether it was snowy or not!

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

Ooh, pretty. Much, much colder in your neck of the woods than mine, then - what a difference the sea air makes!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

You know, I've heard that about sea air... *g* Do you have snow, though? Or is that mostly just over here too (and I'm guessing up north... *g*)?

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

We had one little flurry yesterday afternoon. Since then, nada.

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

Just been out for a walk here, and the sun is shining through clear air and the roads are so quiet and everything is fresh. It really is like six or seven am on a summer morning - as if the sun has been up for hours, but still no-one has come out into it.

Love the spider web. The first picture reminds me of waking up and seeing jack frost patterns on the windows. I get all nostalgic for those frost patterns sometimes, and then I remember: they happened because it was that cold inside, as well...

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I've only just realised that I didn't come back and reply - so sorry!

I remember frost patterns on windows now and then in Australia - I remember being envious that people in England got to see them so much more often!

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

What beautiful pictures, thank you! And excellent that you still have old-fashioned milk bottles, to take that classic winter shot.

What a contrast! Here it's just horridly dull and damp. We've had no snow at all this winter. (sulks) The whole country being in the grip of a big freeze clearly doesn't apply to this part (sulks more at south-eastern bias of media). But there's a major altitude effect - every day when N goes out in his school bus he encounters snow and/or icy roads in the hills. But it's hard to judge whether he needs to take the longer and less precipitous route when it's not icy down here.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I've only just realised that I didn't come back and reply - so sorry!

Yuck that you had horridly dull and damp - I hope things have brightened up for you now, since you didn't get the pretty cold...

[inamac.livejournal.com]

Lovely pictures - especially the kissing gate and classic phone box (almost Lilliput Lane model-like!)

We're close enough to London not to be too cold, though the packed snow on the woodland paths and te roads has now frozen into black ice, with a light dusting of snow to trap the unwary.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I've only just realised that I didn't come back and reply - so sorry!

And thank you - it was a gorgeous day to take pictures, and I'm quite lucky really that I was off work!

And now we're forecast 18C tomorrow...

[etain-antrim.livejournal.com]

Beautiful photos! You should consider selling them -- they're that good. In the meantime, I'm enjoying your winter. Why does your snow look so picturesque while ours just looks heavy and rock-like? (Okay, ours was quite pretty right after it fell, but not any longer.)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I've only just realised that I didn't come back and reply - so sorry!

And bless you - what a lovely thing to say! I wish they really were that good, but I don't think they'd stand up under close scrutiny! *g*

We're forecast 18C for tomorrow, now that I've finally got around to replying to these wintry-comments - what a contrast! *g*

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

Winter! :D
Really fab frost pictures! What a contrast to the raindrops clinging to the cherry tree branches outside the living room window, here. Though the sun is trying to break through and there are birds in the tree, so it's actually rather nice this morning. *g*

What made me really smile is the milk bottle on your doorstep!
They still deliver milk like that in England?! How wonderful!

Enjoy a frosty winter walk, and please take more pictures! :)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I've only just realised that I didn't come back and reply - so sorry!

They've just started delivering milk like that again where I live now - its been very rare over the past years... They also offer a pretty wide range of groceries at the same time, but I like the traditional milk... I even leave requests for them on a note left in the bottle, just for fun (whether they see it that way, I don't know... *g*)

We're forecast 18C for tomorrow, now that I've finally gotten around to replying to these wintry comments!

[cornishcat.livejournal.com]

Wow... just WOW!!

I so miss crisp, cold winters. If we had weather like that down here they'd probably close the county!

You've got a great eye for catching iconic images and, as etain_antrim rightly observes, they look very professional.

Thanks for sharing them.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I've only just realised that I didn't come back and reply - so sorry!

And thank you! *g* Heeeee for closing your county - didn't they actually do that once, when there were too many tourists there? I never worked out how they managed it, mind - a big sign on the M5 that you had to come off at the next junction and go back to Devon, maybe...? *g*

[murphybabe]

Beautiful pictures! As I was coming down the A14 on my way to Cambridge this morning, the temp on my car was telling me it was -11 degrees. I stopped for petrol and the cap had frozen so I couldn't get the cap off. Amazing!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I've only just realised that I didn't come back and reply - so sorry!

Heee for frozen petrol caps! I was quite glad not to be driving that week, though I don't mind driving in snow in general. On the bright side, we don't have to go out and plug our cars in overnight, over here... *g* And I remember the first time I realised that people turned their car engines on and then went away and left them running with the keys in for half an hour (in Alaska) to warm up the engine - my little heart-from-Manchester didn't know what to do with itself, I wanted to run down and stand guard on them all! *g*

[hagsrus.livejournal.com]

Hey, you have real milk in bottles! I remember from childhood occasionally they froze like that.

Does yours come unhomegnised with the cream at the top, or is that long gone?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I've only just realised that I didn't come back and reply - so sorry!

Yes - real milk in bottles! A company started the service up again last year, and I was so pleased that I decided I had to support it, even if I don't use all that much milk! *g* I suspect unhomogenised with cream at the top is long gone - I get organic semi-skimmed... *g*

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous pics! I particularly like the webs. I think that field is probably too big to be a paddock but it could be a meadow...

We haven't had any more snow up here but it is very cold. (But not pretty.)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I've only just realised that I didn't come back and reply - so sorry!

You've left me spluttering though - paddocks are huge, much bigger than meadows! *g* And meadows are much prettier, and less utilitarian... I suppose we could go for the middle ground - field? *g*

They're telling us 18C tomorrow, now that I'm finally getting around to replying to these comments... *g*

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

I expect paddocks vary from farm to farm and county to county - I was going by the paddocks round where I grew up. Then I googled it:

a : a usually enclosed area used especially for pasturing or exercising animals; especially : an enclosure where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race
b : Australian & New Zealand : an often enclosed field
c : an area at an automobile racecourse where racing cars are parked

I could add - East Yorkshire : a 'home' field, usually small, e.g. where cows wait to go to the milking shed or where racehorses get some fresh air before being put into horse boxes (or see (a) above).

Then, of course, there's the other meaning entirely, but I don't think we're talking about toads.

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

Your photos are absolutely gorgeous. And I don't know whether I'm more amazed by the temperatures (27C here at 9am this morning)or by the fact that you still have milk delivered to your doorstep, and in bottles no less.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I've only just realised that I didn't come back and reply - so sorry!

And hee for amazing temperatures and bottles of milk delivered! *g* They actually just started delivering around my way, which isn't even in a town so it quite surprised me, though I love it. They do groceries and things too, but I really just like the milk being delivered... and I persist in leaving them notes rolled up in the milk bottle if I need to cancel for a week too... *g*