Category: Thaw

Allestree, Daffodils, DERBY, Derbyshire, England, Environmental, Everyday Life, Frozen Lake, January, Photography, Pine Tree, RAIN, Seasonal, Snow Melt, Thaw, WINTER

As if by Magic………..look no snow!

Torrential overnight rain and a dramatic rise in temperature to 8C acted ‘like magic’ on yesterdays heavy snows.  A very different scene this morning with hardly a scrap of snow to be seen….

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But whilst the snow may well have gone there is still large areas of the lake covered in ice. The sudden thaw has resulted in snow melt cascading down to the lake and filling all available gullies and ditches……

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Nor did the heavy snows leave us unscathed, several of the larger pine and cypress trees, trees that retain a good canopy of foliage over the winter, have shed branches unable to support the weight of the heavy snows……

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There are other reminders of the past week……

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” I was once a Snowman! and someone loved me“

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“I am glad I never was a real Turtle having to stand here in this icy pond!”

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This Mute Swan was actually playing with this discarded drinks bottle

But is that the first signs of new life appearing through the ice…..

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……..I wonder?  Not too sure, well this most certainly is new growth…….

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Fresh green shoots of woodland Daffodils….the first REAL signs of Spring!

27th January

© David Oakes 2013