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

[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*

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

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

[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...

[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.

[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.

[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.)

[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! :)

[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.

[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!

[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?

[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.)

[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.