Watery Wednesday: Freezing River

Winter came early this year, with lasting cold weather. It’s hard on the birds:
Much of the river is already getting covered by ice.

 

 

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Mosaic Monday: More Snow

*** … and it just keeps snowing … ***

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Bird Snack Bar In The Park

 

The yellow bird is a Great Tit. The other one I’m not sure of… Possibly a Willow-Tit?

PS. We’ve been having broadband problems here lately.
Internet contact has been on and off irregularly for several days in a row now.
Not only  does it affect my own posting, but also how much
I’m able to catch up with my blogging friends!

Favourite Shops

 Friday My Town Shoot Out

  

My favourite tea shop.
They also sell coffee; but I am a tea person...

Besides tea and coffee, they also offer other temptations
to go with it: Bread, biscuits, chocolate, candy…

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Whether you’d like to buy someone a gift, or the materials to get busy yourself,
this arts & crafts shop is a good place to start looking for inspiration.

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“HeartRoom” - a shop for interior design and garden decorations.
A place to go if you’re looking for that “little extra”.

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My town does not really have a “main street”.
There are several streets lined with shops in the town centre.
Today the town square was all set up with extra Christmas market stalls.
(Old town hall/district court in the background. )

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Snowstorm in November

“Snow is nothing but annoyingly icy frozen water stuff
that falls out of the sky at inconvenient times.”

~ from Gilmore Girls, Season 5 ~

(Photoshop Filter Artistic/Sponge for enhanced effect)

It’s Snowing

This was yesterday. Pretty much the same view today…

Mosaic Monday: Frozen Leaves Collage

From the first snowfall of the year, 22 October.
It started snowing on Thursday night. By Saturday afternoon, it was all gone again.
The pictures taken on Friday by noon. A very short, slow and “careful” walk…

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The Snow Monster

You can see it, can't you?
Hopefully the rain yesterday will have diminished it... Snow Monsters don't like rain!

When the Snow Melts...

... you get Little Lakes in places where you do not wish to have them...
I don't know the name for the kind of vehicle to the right (with pumps and hoses to get rid of unwanted water) but right now they are more in demand than the snow ploughs.

I Just Wish It Gone

In spite of quite a few sunny afternoons, and now rain, there's still too much of it left: snow and ice (by now in many places in town heavily mixed up with gravel). Can't wait to see it all gone, and some spring flowers pushing their way up instead...!

The River

"How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on."
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry~

The River is now more or less ice-free (at least in this spot!), but there is still plenty of snow left on the ground.

Old Factory Building

Back in February, I was showing pictures of a set of icicles along the roof of an old factory buildning, and I got a question if I had a picture of the whole building. I didn't, back then, but I said I'd think about it the next time I passed there with the camera. Because of all the snow and ice lately, that did not happen until today. There are still some spots that are not at all pedestrian-friendly...



I have to confess I really don't know anything about the history of the building, I'm just assuming it must be one of the oldest factories in town because of the building material being stone, not brick.


 

Mosaic Monday: Be Careful Out There

Even though we've had quite a few sunny days lately, it is still very cold, and we're still deeply embedded in snow and ice. Bare patches are beginning to appear here and there, but it's a slow process... In town, there are some heated streets/pavements that are ice free, but you still have to keep watching out for snow and ice falling from above. In other places, you had better look carefully where you put your feet. And the bus drivers are having a tricky time, too!



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The House on the Hill

In the summer, you don't see much of this house from the street down below. In fact you can't get close to it from any point of view. It is surrounded by high stone walls, iron fences and closed gates, and gives a very strong impression of "keep away!" Which suggests to me it might still be a private home rather than turned into offices for some company or other.

I Guess Sometimes They Need A Break

... The people whose job it is to get rid of all the snow, I mean ...

Snowing Again

Thaw and rain over the weekend did not manage to get rid of all the snow and ice gathered over the last couple of months - was not even enough to clear the streets and walkways. And today it's back to snowstorm outside my windows again! The picture is from a snowfall at the beginning of February. I have not been out since Friday, and do not intend to go out today...!

Windows

The sign on the house translates "Glazier's Workshop".
The picture was edited in Photoshop Elements 2.0

Roots

(The headstone below the tree marks the grave of my great-grandparents.)

"A people without the knowledge of their past history,
origin and culture is like a tree without roots."
Marcus Garvey

The Graveyard Chapel

We had A LOT of snow over the past weekend.
The snow in the forground is on top of a hedge!







Now these are some "serious" icicles...!
But there is no path underneath them now so no real danger that anyone get hit by them.

Mosaic Monday: Countryside Outbuildings

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