A frosty start to today, Thursday, but unlike yesterday the sun also brought with is a nearly cloud free blue sky. OK its cold but as yet not cold enough to freeze the Lake…
A welcome sign that spring is on the way are our first delicate yellow Catkins…
Remember this from yesterday, dull, damp and misty….
Well Today it looks very different
All in all a beautiful winters day….we just have to wait and wonder were the weather see-saw will choose to land this Friday
29th December
(C) David Oakes 2017
DAVID OAKES - IMAGES. 
So beautiful, Thank you dear David, Happy New Year, Love, nia
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It is England in December, what do you expect?
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There was a time when the 4 seasons followed each other like clockwork and followed to a great extent a pattern of change thru each season and from one to another….some would say a natural order. What I find disturbing is that our fluctuations in weather and temperatures are so great (for England) that it is having an effect on wildlife and habitats. Some trees have only just lost there leaves and now new buds, normally expecting to lie dormant, are actually opening with new leaf sprouting…the same applies in our garden, shrubs that in the past remain bare with tight buds are opening. Then along come a frost and they are gone as water in the new leaf freezes. Yesterday we were at -1c today we are currently at 12c with a predicted high of 14c. We have wintering birds that migrate here over the winter now squabbling with residents that would normally have flown south. I know its England and our weather has always been the key topic of conversation but this last year it has been more talked about than usual. Interesting times ahead
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Oh, I completely agree…the weather of my childhood ha s disappeared, and sadly many species along with it….
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Sad but true…
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