So suddenly it snows and is cold and icy again. The problem is it limits what one can do in the garden other then prune and shift manure. What I can do is nip out with the camera -
So here are some of them - the lower garden with the pond and the shed, the view up the lower banking to the house.
The snow changes the whole garden, highlights branches and colour, conjures shapes. The dead heads of buddleia look different and sculptural.
On the ground the three toed prints of the pheasant abound, the squirrels hop prints and the characteristic rabbit spoor with the lagging feet are scattered in the upper areas.No fox prints today - a long single file.
The cold is enough to freeze the electric gate - open not shut fortunately, but the paper is not delivered even though I salt the turn into our track.
R has a new set of pull on grips for her shoes/boots and will need to test them out.
Anyway the reintroduction of the bird feeder has produced some action, goldfinch left, chaffinch right.No sign of any rats yet - presumably curled up somewhere snug and warm for now. I wonder if we have any hedgehogs in the sticking leaf piles though, with badgers tramping through the garden from time to time I rather doubt it as they like a juicy hedgehog.
The trouble with the snow and sun is that it is hard to stop taking photos so here are some more -
The way to the garden
South from the wood
The house from the wood
The house from the veg beds
And finally snowdrops in the snow.
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