Saturday 16 March 2013

Surprised by Snow

We were surprised by snow this week.  It was the good stuff, though, dry and fine-crystalled, blowing about in the wind like soap-powder.  While it lasted it was very decorative, a dusting of icing-sugar over everything, but was gone by lunchtime.  The cutting wind stayed on, however.






We've also had rain, fog, thunder, hail and bright sunshine.  It must be March...  The trees have decided, using whatever calculation it is they use*, that it is now Spring.  The mind of a tree is an unfathomable thing, slow to reach conclusion, but implacable in its resolve.





* Yes, yes, log tables, twigonometry...  You'll have to do better than that.

6 comments:

Zouk Delors said...

Twigonometry

Isn't it a branch of phenology*? (Crash!).

Whatever happened to Struan, btw?

* http://www.naturescalendar.org.uk/research/phenology.htm

Mike C. said...

Zouk,

No comments on other commenters, please.

Mike

Zouk Delors said...

Apologies. I'll leaf it out in future.

Kent Wiley said...

Lovely ubiquitous plastic bags.

Mike C. said...

Now I'm glad you spotted that, Kent! As well as the obvious blue one, what others might take for a conveniently-placed snow-covered boulder in the foreground is, in fact, a polythene bag.

I drove past a brilliant "witches' knickers" tree this afternoon -- I'll be back.

Mike

Kent Wiley said...

That's a "crowd sourced" project, Mike. My recent contribution would be here.