Snow Pictures - February 2009

I change the pictures and caption at the top of the home page every month - they're mostly taken in my garden or near where I live. Here's an archive of those pictures. They're all taken by myself with digital cameras - various types.

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Snow picture - Back Garden There's about 3-4" worth here, not a lot compared to what some parts of the country received. It fell between midnight (when I retired) and 5 am (when I woke up, noticed the brightness around the curtains and had a little peek) on the 5th of Feb, completely silently, there must have not been the slightest breath of wind going by how the snow was piled deep on the most precarious of perches.	Snow picture - In the Bleak Midwinter Taken in Riverside Park St. Neots shortly before dusk on the 2nd of Feb. We thought this was all the snow we would be likely to get at that time, many years since we saw this kind of scene in North Cambridgeshire. There was much more to come however!
Snow picture - Icy road About 8 am on the road where I live, this is really the gentlest of slopes, but every vehicle was finding it a real struggle to get up this day. I wanted to get out for a walk in case the snow disappeared quickly (I am a very big kid at heart when it comes to snow). It reminded me of those not infrequent snow falls when I was a kid when you couldn't tell where the pavement ended and the road started.	Snow picture - Snowy lane I am fortunate enough to live in a village in the countryside and so lanes with little or no traffic are not difficult to find. I liked this one for the extravagant amount of snow still piled up on the tree branches.
Snow picture - Pine cones Cedar cones to be pedantic. Cones on a Cedar of Lebanon in the church yard get dressed up in Christmas fashion.	Snow picture - In the bleak midwinter 2 I quite like the melancholia of such bleak wintry scenes as this one. In about 6-8 weeks time though, it will be green as spring starts to rush in.
Snow picture - Small shrub We are told to prune shrubs such as rose bushes before the winter starts in order to prevent snow damage. How superfluous that advice has been for a long time now. However this picture reminds us why it's a useful precaution	Snow picture - Poor Violas Good strong Violas that is, but poor as they are in reduced circumstances. These are in a container outside my front door planted under a standard holly. They flower all through the winter, taking each knock-back as it comes, but even as in this picture - managing to raise a few bright happy flower faces to the world despite the severity of the weather.

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