Early Morning in Big Wood Allestree…
It was a very welcome surprise to find that the sun is still up there!…after a week of rain and fog it was also a relief. The sun may well be low but was catching the tops of the tall pines refreshing their green needles.
But was I fooling myself could I really detect early signs of spring growth starting to swell on the Silver Birch…. No, I am sure it is there already…
The blue skies above the woods, contrasted with the woodland floor, which still shines with the golden colours of Autumn
2016 has been a very odd year for both weather and maintaining anything like a seasonal cyclical pattern…..and could 2017 be starting in the same vein.
Dropping down to the Lake, that drop in height, created a drop in temperature, the waters were still and at the shady side ice was starting to form. Maybe sometime soon we are going to get some proper frost, ice and maybe a flurry of snow…then we can say that winter has arrived….
Whilst we perhaps are not too overjoyed about the possible disruption that heavy snows can bring it would seem strange to say the least if we were to skip winter and head straight to spring…..we will just have to wait and see.
2nd January
(C) David Oakes 2017
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Morning! Lovely sunshine there, David. We had some yesterday and it started again today but it’s getting overcast and we expect lots of wind and rain coming. But yes… in our park I detected small buds on shrubs and also on some trees, like the willow. The promise of spring is there!
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Promises are one thing…the reality is another ! 🙂
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As always! But I agree that there are days when you just don’t think its possible?!
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and we have had too many days of late when the sun threatened but would not come out to play…..still cold 🙂
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Aw, it’s called ‘winter’, David! Tomorrow we expect minus 6degrees, but qalready on friday/saturday we will be back to about zero. Soon the spring will be here – I hope!
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We have two days of below freezing then its more rain over the weekend (well that is what we are told)
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The forecast said minus 4-5 degrees, but this morning we woke to a blistering minus 14,5! The good thing it will be gone by tomorrow – hopefully!
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