PhotoDiary: Ice

Showing posts with label Ice. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Ice. Show all posts

Friday, February 1, 2019

01/02/2019 Trying to catch up...

24/01/2019 Ice on the pond in Devizes with reflections...

25/01/2019 Sunset Devizes...

28/01/2019 The Wadworth Drays delivering beer to the pubs on our last morning in Devizes.

29/01/2019 Going home - Leaving at sparrow to get to the Chunnel in Folkestone...

29/01/2019 heading down the M20 in the UK, I just liked the clouds that looked like mountains.

29/01/2019 Back in France; many of the bridges have different statues on them...

29/01/2019 Sadly driving along the coast there are also quite a few wind turbines as it is very windy there - my pet hate!...

29/01/2019 A view from under a bridge...

29/01/2019 French road signs.

29/01/2019 French countryside...

29/01/2019 and then the rain came down.

30/01/2019 It started snowing as soon as we reached our hotel at Bourgtheroulde-Infreville and this is what we set out in the following morning...

30/01/2019 Not nice...

30/01/2019 White countryside...

30/01/2019 Trying to pass trucks!!!!...

30/01/2019 The snow ploughs were out...

It continued to past LeMans and then it just rained the remainder of the way home!!

01/02/2019 I could not get to the camera fast enough to get a good shot, the neighbour herding his first lambs into a drier place.

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

07/11/2017 Very chilly and not much around to photograph!

Maximum temperature 10C, minimum -2C. 1km/h NW winds, 15km/h gusts. Frost.

Blue skies but very cold.

Ice in the bird bath!

First frost and time to bring in the medlars to allow them to rot before making medlar jelly. I still have some jelly from last year, so plan on letting them simply just drop this year!!

Blue tit having something to say! (Cyanistes caeruleus)

House sparrow male, (Passer domesticus)

Man at work - raking up leaves for compost.

Still some hornets around!!!

There always seems to be the odd fly around!!

Not much cloud to give a good sunset but when one is short of photos......

For those following the South African holiday Part 8 is now on the web HERE

Saturday, January 21, 2017

21/01/2017 Around the garden.

Maximum temperature 11C, minimum -2C. 21km/h SE wind. Dry but with a light frost.

Bergenia Cordifolia.

A rare visitor to the garden- Wren.

Nigel at work....

collecting leaves for compost.

Broad beans.

Garlic

Garlic chives.

Pampas.

Red Robin buds.

Vibernum tinus.

Ice still lying in the shade!

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

04/01/2017 Frost!

Maximum temperature 8C, minimum -3C. 20 km/h NW wind. No rain heavy frost.

Photos taken at 13h00 in the shady areas...

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Ice on the birdbath which was changed about 6 times today!

Despite the frost - Hellebore and...

Bergenia Cordifolia,

Thursday, January 21, 2016

21/01/2016 Not a good day for photos!

Maximum temperature 12C, minimum 0C. 22 km/h SE winds. Dry but Frost.

My first experiment with the dehydrator went well. I will fill it next time.

Frosty lawn (well weeds!)

Origanum and Blue Bell leaves.

Ice on the bird bath.

Elephants on the Tembe webcam.

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Shadows Along the Zambezi by Diana M. Hawkins
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I so enjoyed this book and towards the end I could not put it down only finishing at 2am! Having lived most of my early life in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, so many places had a lot of meaning to me. Diana’s knowledge of every detail in this book is incredible.
Sadly, so much of this story is fact and very true. It made me cry and at times it made me smile. I hope that it might awaken the world as to what is going on in many African countries, and instead of so many people burying their heads in the sand, perhaps they might stand up and do something. Smuggling and hunting are very soon going to leave the world a very sad place when there are no animals left.
Now I am off to read Shadows over an African Heart.

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Shadows Over an African Heart: a novel by Diana M. Hawkins
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Shadows over an African Heart is the perfect name for this book. The shadows are even bigger than I ever dreamt, and this book is a real eye-opener to the truth of what is going on. I was in tears in many places in this book. The fictional side story I so enjoyed, but the true and very sad story of the elephants and other animals; the Zimbabwe government has so much to answer for.
The world needs to read both of Diana’s books and action needs to be taken before the children of today never see wildlife as we have had the joy to grow up with around us.
There are many African words in the story which to me were great to be reminded of, but many are explained as you read and there is a good glossary of the words in the back of the book.

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