We had another light snowfall yesterday, and although last night’s frost means today everything is still crunchy underfoot it already seems to be melting a little in the low winter mid-day sun. So my camera and I went out to the back garden to see what we could see, taking a series of photographs of my snowmelt winter garden 🙂
Tag: seasons
My November Garden
As well as beuatiful autumnal colours my November garden also brings the promise of new life for next year 🙂
Red and Green
Red and green always seems such a Christmassy combination, even at the beginning of September! And for the past couple of days as well as a trio of bluetits a little robin with its fluffy orange-red breast has been feeding at our bird feeder, so nature seems keen to remind me that winter will be coming soon. Thanks nature, I know the fast-cooling weather has been a little uncertain lately but personally I haven’t actually quite finished with summer yet, and surely autumn still needs to have her beautiful blaze of glory before chilly winter blows over us with her icy breath and frozen fingers… 🙂
The Joys of Spring
While spring-time fills my heart with joy
Plant pollen makes my red eyes itch
And constant sneezing does annoy
Hay-fever is a total bitch
Good anti-histamines employ
Reduce my allergies enough
To let me breathe, however rough
While scented flowers fill the air
I fill my lungs without a care
And wheeze until it makes me cough…
Garden Daffs
Daffodils growing in my garden for today’s Flower of the Day 🙂
Spring Has Definitely Sprung
Here in the UK our clocks change tonight, formally heralding the beginning of British Summer Time but in reality simply letting us all know that it’s time that Spring has well and truly sprung! 🙂
Spring Snow-Melt
More Snowdrops, and Nearly Some Crocus
In between blustery rain showers earlier today I hung out the washing on the line to give it all a bit of a blow about and some fresh air to hopefully start to dry, and on the way back in I noticed that as well as the snowdrops a few tiny crocus plants are starting to flower, even though it is only the end of January and we live in the North of Scotland – how exciting! 🙂
Cee’s Fun Foto: Harvest
Straw bales in the field behind my mum and dad’s house, taken last autumn from over the garden wall 🙂
Fruit Crumble
A chronological line up of pics showing a day in the life of two types of autumn fruits progressing from plant to plate 🙂
The fruit on mum and dad’s plum tree is ripening nicely just now, as are the brambles growing along the side of the road by the house. So the other day my husband picked some of both and I made them into one big fruit crumble.
After cooking in the oven I could see the fruit had been far juicier than I had anticipated so the end result didn’t look the best with all the juice soaking right up through the sugary cinnamony crumble topping but oh, the smell – and the taste – was absolutely delicious.
We had it hot with custard on the first day, then cold with vanilla ice cream the next… yum! 🙂
