Snow Walk

 

The house looks a little wobbly in my photo - almost like a dreamy image.   I didn't walk far - just up the hill towards our Reservoir, but the views are good and how I enjoyed it.  First proper walk I have had since becoming ill - just over 1/4 mile each way, but it was so good to get out.

I am so lucky to have such beautiful views on my doorstep.

I had one foot in the tyre mark, and one in the deeper snow, for balance.  It wasn't icy.  Only two vehicles had used the road - one up and one down.  A 4x4 without doubt.

The sun hasn't melted the snow on the trees yet, although it felt quite warm on my face.  We are due rain tomorrow and Weds and then 4 days or so of snow so I will get out when I can and top up the store cupboard.

I have given up on the beautiful jigsaw.  When I had to get a magnifying glass to read the tiny writing on the pieces, I knew I was on a loser.  A shame, as it was so lovely.  I will look for a 500 piece one in the charity shop that my eyes can manage!

A Snowy Walk

As you can see from the new header photo (Black Mountain in the snow) there has been a significant fall further East.  It is just as well we didn't decide to chance our arm and head for Malvern in the middle of the night yesterday, as the A40 was blocked near Halfway by a fallen tree (which crushed the back of someone's motorhome) and Sennybridge was cut off under just over a foot of snow (32 cm). 

I thoroughly enjoyed my walk today - I got Keith to drop me off about 1 1/2 miles away (uphill) towards Horeb, so I could get the best photos of the snowy scenery, especially Black Mountain.  WHEN I can load them, there are lots of beautiful scenes.

There will be more photos later, but these are loading SO slowly (I presume the cold is affecting the phone lines).  The scene above shows the hills to the right of Black Mountain - they will have Brynamman behind them, out of sight.  Below is sun on snow, looking across a field higher up, above the snow line.  I hope to add some more later.