Yes folks ... we finally had snow and even as I write more is falling with heavier falls due by Friday, but this morning just started off as very frosty and small spiders webs everywhere were hung with temporary diamonds that sparkled in a brief moment of sun.
This afternoon I had to take the dog to the local vets in order to get a re-prescription of his daily anti-inflammatory tablets. The roads were clear, but above ground level every tree and hedge was just pure white. not a sign of a bare branch anywhere and it was misty.
The drive to the vets had to be carefully driven, idiot drivers driving too fast many with no lights on and some even trying to overtake in very poor visibility. The side road down to the Vets had luckily been gritted for the first time in years, and we easily made it in time. Ffin had a good sniff around the surroundings before we went in. He's not at ease with vets, ever since two bad experiences, once with his first injections as a pup and the time he got micro chipped with the dog warden who messed up the first attempt and had to muzzle him for the second. But ... the lovely lady vet was gentle and won him over.
Afterwards we went for a walk ...
Just by the entrance to the vets was this beautifully, heavily laden, red-berried bush encrusted with ice crystals. I was amazed that the winter hungry birds had not stripped it of all it's fruit because here back in this fen village there is hardly a berry to be seen after the last week of cooler days and bitter cold nights.
It was a lovely sight, but beyond the ornamental hedges of the vets the roadsides reverted to more natural plants. As a reward for not snarling at the lovely, gentle lady vet, I took him for a short walk along the narrow road with farmland either side. It was a bitter cold but magical black and white world.
The sharp, dark contrasts of man made gates against the soft, subtle pale shades of snow ... were a delight to behold and as the dog sniffed through the drifts, my fingers got cold.
Ever tried operating a small digital camera with thick gloves on? Yep ... it isn't at all easy!
Then I came across some old, abandoned, outdated farm machinery , sadly overgrown.
I took so many pictures (too many to show here) and my fingers started to freeze but ...
on the back of a seemingly, fairly recently used trailer I noticed this wonderful cobweb.
Out of the many frost decorated spiders webs I've photographed today, this is the best.
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