Cold. Cold. It's been bitingly cold these last few mornings.
Minus one, minus two..... and this morning, minus four!
The Best Man and I headed outside to have a last look at the 'super moon' this morning and we just caught her as she was sinking to her rest. She's been a beauty these past nights - fat and round and glowing. I always want to lay outside and watch her shining so benignly in the night sky but sadly, it's been so cold that it's not been conducive to a midnight laze in the paddock!
I contented myself with a quick peek and some hasty photos of her, then a very brisk early morning walk. Such a crunchy, white world but ooh, it was cold!!
The few floral stragglers in the garden were decorated with icy tips.
I couldn't help wondering where the little spider was hiding and if he'd been frozen!
There were ice crystals on everything. I would dearly love a camera or lens that could capture this minute icy world in more detail but have to content myself with this overall view for now.
Fencepost and barbed wire.
Old wagon wheel rim.
Garden trowel.
The rim of a clay pot.
And when we returned home, the sun had just risen enough to bathe our cottage and the smoke rising from the newly fed fire, with it's welcome rays.
Thats the beauty of a frosty night - the next day will invariably be bright and sunny.
I enjoy each and every one of these icy nights knowing that the day to follow will be a bright one!
And now that we are past the Winter Solstice and it's all upwards from here (at least in day length, although the cold goes on and on!) I'm feeling a spring in my step too!
I hope you all had a meaningful Solstice celebration with your loved ones.
Till next time xx
Beautiful photos of your frosty morning walk. No frost up this way as yet. We had a wonderful solstice celebration on Saturday evening. We were very lucky as it rained the next day!
ReplyDeletelove the frosty photos from your morning walk!!!!
ReplyDeletewish you a nice week,
regina
Fabulous photos all around, but that spider web is a real gem. I love the look of the frost--so magical--but oh, so chilly!
ReplyDeleteLovely! We're loving the cold. Our dam's been freezing over on a daily basis!
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ReplyDeleteEvi - those phots are just magical.
ReplyDeleteIt does look so very cold though!
About this time last year you had the Colour Challenge which was great. Are you thinking of doing it again?
cheers Wendy
Yes it was very frosty that morning although the last two mornings have been 'warmer'!!
ReplyDeleteWendy, I really hadn't thought about doing another colour challenge this year. It was just a one of, but now you have given me an idea, I might give it another whirl. Trouble is, I've use'd a lot of my existing pics and would need to actively go out and find new ones. Hmmm, I'll give it some thought and perhaps ask all the gorgeous peeps that drop by.
Thanks for the reminder.
brrr!! :) Lovely photos Ev!
ReplyDeleteI loved these photos...you could enlarge one of these and put it in a frame!
ReplyDeleteIt was a glorious moon wasnt it!Almost as bright as day but in black and white in our back yard! Wonderful photos. Instead of a colour challenge, what about as mood theme challenge - happy, melancholy, glee, thoughtful... - K xx
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