Snow drops on birch. This was a “pick n mix” week. Your choice of rain, snow, sleet in any combination at any time, served with a side order of gales. This drop of melting snow was refracting the tree behind, in a brief moment of relative light. “Take January’s advice – stack wood! Weather inevitably […]
Winter Birch. The upper Findhorn valley, near Tomatin, on a day of cold winds and a flurry of snow on the tops. This week has seen a constant cycle of rain and a few snow flurries, followed by frost, leaving everywhere covered in a layer of ice! I liked how the tree and grasses caught […]
Frost Flowers. Frost-encrusted mosses, catching a glint of sun. Each spike of moss had grown a crystal of ice, with further ice crystals growing from these. “At the one extreme, we think we’re not good enough to testify for a better world. At the other, we fear going crazy, screwing up, failing, being crucified or […]
Ice refraction, Loch Garten, Strathspey. Christmas day – loch Garten had totally frozen during the previous week of low temperatures. A slight thaw created all manner of shapes with the wind pushing ice up, which then refroze as the cold returned. The sounds were amazing as the surface boomed and creaked under the pressure from […]
