More snow....

Garden today (20^th)

Contorted Hazel tree

Old man’s beard lichen?

Signpost to Grantown

Embankment – anyone for sledging?

Sue’s trees

Railway line to the east

Railway line to the west

Great thread 

Thanks Dizzy / Four 

Seconded keep them coming!!

Okay, so we've had some snow lying on the ground since 24th December and it doesn't look as if it is going to shift anytime soon....  It thaws a bit but then we have another shower or two.  The skiing in the Cairngorms would be fantastic this season, but unfortunately with Covid and the lack of the Funicular, it's closed.  Many locals are out and about on cross country skis though.  :-)

The railway line today with a wee river running down through it.

The garden today with the remnants of old snowmen.

The Cromdale Hills looking very white.

There's to be frost overnight and blue skies tomorrow so I should be out and about taking photos.  (Spouse is very patient.) 

PS  I've added the links to open in a new window, so clicking on the pictures should make them bigger....  Thanks, Darren.

Forgot the latest snowman....

Snow on Wednesday night...

I took this screen grab from the A939 snow gates earlier today and thought, looking beyond the gates, it may be a while before the road is fully open:

I took this screen grab from the A939 snow gates earlier today and thought, looking beyond the gates, it may be a while before the road is fully open:

 

It's a beautiful picture

And I've loved looking through Daff's, too.

We have quite a bit and some sun today to show it off.
Through the afternoon the wind picked up and you could see snow blowing about higher up which I managed to catch on video - still uploading though we can still only have 0.5mb up speed.

I have many pictures from Essex that look just like that. Problem is they were all taken over thirty years ago !!

To me it's all rather sad to see us being excited by the kind of snowfall depths we used to see here on Dartmoor at least once a year. I can remember many snowfalls where it was so deep walking was difficult.

Since 2013 or so though, nothing, no snow worth mentioning here ...

Today we had minus 5 deg C or thereabouts and I tried playing with bubbles in the frost, but they burst!  Then we went a walk up the hill behind the house.  There was blue sky and sparkling snow, but unfortunately all the snow on the branches of the trees came off with wind and the thaw earlier in the week.  Here's today's pics....

Feathers in the frost through the window

Bubbles

Bubble

Bubble 2

Burst!

Railway 23^rd

Diamonds

Railway pond

Footsteps

Snow

Shadows

Tractor track

Glenbeg to the hills

Mountain

Plateau

Phew!  I should maybe restrict myself to 5 photos a day.  It would be easier!  

I found a video made from some snow photos from December 2009....

https://youtu.be/6UMLXrveS1M 

Now that was snow!   

Just made another from random photos from January 2010....

https://youtu.be/P0qm1a1pieI

And another ...

https://youtu.be/2ti41XInRws

Haven't seen snow like that since the blizzard of '78.

A smattering of snow I suppose you could call it in parts of Dorset in past few hours but not really proper snow and only rain here though for some people it's probably an event of a lifetime. Waiting for a deep cold easterly and powder snow as that's really the only way to get decent snow here. Hens teeth come to mind though.

Beautiful images esp the red squirrel. 

To me it's all rather sad to see us being excited by the kind of snowfall depths we used to see here on Dartmoor at least once a year. I can remember many snowfalls where it was so deep walking was difficult.

Since 2013 or so though, nothing, no snow worth mentioning here ...

Perversely, about 5cm of snow here this morning, melting though...

Today's pictures - (they're getting a bit repetitive now....)

Tiny bit of iridescence this morning

Frosty snow

Woodpecker

Railway 24^th

Top field 24^th

Top field to Cromdales

Sheep field

Sheep field to Cromdales

Road to Glenbeg

Panorama

Cairngorm

Snowdrifts

Almost home

I need to take the bike out again tomorrow and go further afield.  

Lovely pics Daphne.

A beautiful part of the world.

I will second that.

It always amazes me how Scotland is so close geographically yet weather wise, it sometimes feels like a different planet in terms of the amount of snow you get.

Thank you for the nice comments - glad to share.

Unfortunately it's been dull since the weekend, so I did some housework, but today, dull or not, I had to get out the bike….

The Old Spey Bridge

View to the West

View to the East

The Stone at the end of the bridge

Commemorative Stone in summer

Blurb about it

Grantown East Station (now a restaurant)

The New Bridge (built in 1931)

The Bathing Pool

The Old Cemetery

The old tree

Towards the Cairngorms, but they’re not visible today

The railway today – a tad icy for the bike!

More snow forecast...