Outlines of trees

It snowed again overnight – only an inch or two; we have had it easy compared to those living further south, east or far to the north.

Nor is it the same sort of snow we have had for the past few bad winters. Rather than frozen hard it is powdery, soft, & gleaming white. And the temperature has never dropped much below zero, even over night, so it has not turned to ice which can be so ttreacherous underfoot.

This morning it must have been a couple of degrees above zero because even just the light traffic in the lane outside the house had been enough to melt the snow away to leave the surface clear.

It stayed deep on the pavements however, though nice & easy to walk on – until I got to the part where some idiot had cleared the snow from the access to their double driveway, just by pushing the snow to the sides & leaving it piled in two ridges all the way across to the kerb. Pedestrians had no alternative but to step out into the road to navigate their way around these.

Another problem is a kind of snow blindness caused by the intense whiteness. Thankfully all this raising & lowering of kerb edges in the name of disabled access has another side benefit – you know you can cross at one of those points without the risk of turning your ankle as you put it down hard on the hidden edge of the curb.

And the world looks beautiful, with the tree branches all silhouetted in white.