23
12
2009
XLI
The streets were deserted and silent. From struggling through nose to tail traffic in heavy snow at 20mph on the way home, to cIear skies and the village all to myself on the way home from a visit to my folks house for dinner.
Winter walks at night in the snow are pure magic. The snow takes the light and plays with it, everything seems new and clean, the hardest edges are softened, it’s like a sleeping powder has been sprinkled on the land and I missed it and stayed awake because I was in the cellar changing the cheese in the mousetraps.
The girls are stuck up north in the snowdrift that is Joycee’s folks place. It’s getting helluva close to Christmas, lets hope for better roads up there tomorrow.
Many happy returns btw. Hope you get the girls back in time for cake :o)
Hope the roads improve an d the girls get home, plus there are snowy hills to be got to….
There’s an alpenglow on the roofs out there, all I need is the girls heading south and I’l have a good day.
Once I’ve serviced these two boilers…
Loving the snow here too. Managed to navigate a quick night time ski last night around the local trails using moonlight and a tiny head-torch to light up the sparkly snow.
Just checking around your site and flikr… what camera are you using and what were the settings for the shots above – I take it you bring a tripod along with you, given your other low light shots I’ve seen.
As an aside, got my presents from my lad at the weekend… one Terra Nova Laser Elite 20ltr sack. Blimey! How light is that? He said “all that money dad and it just got put through the letterbox… I expected something a bit more substantial”. He’ll learn.
Best weather is snow laying on the ground, a cloudless sky and dawn breaking. Simply breathtaking.
Hope the girls get home to you soon, safe and sound.
I hope the family are home and safe before Santa comes visiting!
December has been a great month for reading your stories, thanks for all your hard work.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and all the Petesy fans out there ;-)
Thanks for all the kind words, you are all good people and should be served Kopi Luwak with scrambled eggs on toast by naked Balinese maidens (or blokes) every morning at 0800 until spring next year. Or maybe rolls on bacon.
It’s been a funny day, work as usual, only colder, but the girls are back now and we’re all at home. The fairy lights are on (so’s the kettle), the door’s locked and the mobile is switched off.
That’s better.
Baz, it’s a Lumix LX3, great wee camera. The setting for above was “Night scenery”, its about a five second exposure. And aye, a tripod is a constant companion these days!
We’ve got 4.5 inches of snow on our garden in Manchester! It didn’t snow in the day but started again an hour ago and already another inch! :-)
Take it you guyys have got some now too in Weegie Land?
Jamie we have snow in abundance, and now some fog… Christmas Eve inversion anybody?
Old boy indeed :o)
Here, we did have that Christmas Eve inversion right enough :o)