Three larches, the old bracken field, Wapley Hill, 3rd December 2008A fine cold day here, bright and sharp. This house is in a frost pocket so although the valley lost its frost as the sun came up over the hill, this whole side of the valley didn't; the temperature didn't rise above -3C all day.
A good walk this morning on Wapley Hill. The northern side of the hill - i.e. the side above the house - seemed to get the worst of recent weather, with powdery snow there this morning and a very heavy frost a day or so ago, with frozen snow/water/frost making 'shadows' behind individual stems a quarter-inch long. The ground hard and the mud frozen solid, but where the sun had penetrated the ground was muddy. A sharp distinction between frozen and muddy, white ground and thawed ground, apart from the stone road which was snowy under the tall trees, icy where it had melted and refrozen, and then almost dry at the bottom of the hill.
Another cold night for us and snow forecast for much of the country, it seems. Decidedly wintry!
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