Farewell feathery frost

Posted on March 24, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cold, feathery, Frost, frosty, Ice, Icy, Memory, Snow, Time, Weather, Window, windscreen3 Comments

I just found this photo and remembered the morning I sat in my car and saw these spectacular frosty fronds inside the windscreen. I think it was when the heater in the car was broken. It was a few years ago. I don’t think we have had such a cold spell in a few years. Yes it gets cold, but not this cold. It’s due to get cold again this weekend, a few snow showers, maybe some rain.

I remember when I was a child having frosts like this on the inside of our bedroom windows, Jack Frost really did visit in those days. We even had snow in June one year. We had been on the train and when the sky turned orange grey and the snow fell. But that was fifty years ago. Times change.

Feathery frost

Posted on January 29, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Cold, Design, Drawing, Frost, Jack Frost, Painting, Pattern, Poem, PoetryLeave a comment

Feathers in frost,

How crystals grow

Waving and curling

See the cold flow

Other designs

Jack Frost can draw

Painting his marks

They are sublime.

Frost

Posted on January 24, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blue, car windscreen, Cold, Colours, Contrast, Duplicated, Frost, Image, Photo, Red, SymmetryLeave a comment

Flipped and duplicated photo of frost seen on the inside of my car windscreen. The reds are from the car colour. The sky was a brilliant pale blue. I’ve boosted the contrast a bit. Making symmetrical patterns really works with images like this.

Winter flower?

Posted on December 12, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cold, Damage, Frost, Gardening, geranium, Icy, killed, last week, pelargonium, Plants, This week4 Comments

Geranium plant today and a week ago. The poor thing has flopped because the cells have been frozen with ice in them. Only woody stemmed plants and evergreens have survived the coldest areas around the house. Some of the ones snuggled together have just about survived but snow and mist is forecast.

I am sad to lose the lovely flowers, but it’s only natural for this to happen. I’m glad I had time to enjoy them into December. X

Snow coming?

Posted on December 7, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Chilly, Cold, Freezing, Frost, Icy, Illness, Poem, Poetry, snow showers, Weather6 Comments

Snow showers in the North

Will the winter spring forth?

Chilling beasts bones

Ice hardened like stones

Frost and fog lingering cold

Into cracked pavements old

People coughing and spluttering

Runny noses now sniffing.

Sleet and snow are coming near

But only in coastal areas, not here

We will get mist and ice instead..

Well that’s what the weather man said…

Cold, will it snow?

Posted on November 20, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cold, Cop27, Frost, Gardening, global warming, Heat, Heating, Life, Snow, Trees, Weather, Weather forecastLeave a comment

The skies have cleared and the rain has stopped, the temperature has fallen without the clouds holding the warmth in. In some places its due to be foggy and frosty. November had been unseasonably warm. My hanging baskets have literally hung on, with flowers and leaves surviving and the odd bee bumbling around. Now though I’ve actually put the heating on, I also had the oven on to cook yes (might as well heat the house and cook food at the same time.

A national newspaper has reported we should be having six inches of snow, but the real weather forecast is for the temperature to rise again slightly.

In amidst all of this the Ecological Cop27 meeting has just gone back on some of its resolutions to reduce global warming. Major oil and gas producers have pushed for natural gas not to be treated as a greenhouse gas! I’m not sure of the whole story as I only heard a bit on the news, but I think it’s despicable that vested interests can be allowed to harm humanities future because they want their profits.

In the meantime I will continue to plant trees and try and do my bit to reduce my carbon footprint.

Clouds

Posted on October 21, 2022October 21, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cloud, Clouds, Cold, darts, Frost, Ground, Poem, Poetry, Rain, Sky, Sunset, Water, WeatherLeave a comment

Clouds spread across the sky

Small ones grow

Darken and throw

Water darts onto the ground

Streaming rain falls down

Clouds disintegrate

As sunset arrives.

Without clouds the earth grows cold.

Frost fixed white on the ground

Then floating high

More clouds arrive

In our skies..

Yard time

Posted on September 27, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colours, Flowers, Frost, Gardening, oranges greens, Plants, Reds, washing line, YardLeave a comment

Still a sea of flowers. The weather forecast says temperatures of 5°C tonight but I hope that the enclosed yard will protect the plants. I will see in the morning…..

The red flowers seem to be the main things that are still flowering. The yellow line at the top is our washing line, but it’s hard to dry clothes on it in the summer.

Memory of winter

Posted on April 12, 2022April 12, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Birds, Blossom, Cold, Flowers, Frost, later, nests, Poem, Poetry, seasons, Snow, Spring, WinterLeave a comment

The snow has gone for now

Warm winds blow from the south

Clear frosty mornings

Left behind

Rain and showers

Water the blossom and flowers

Cold chill twigs

Now wet with buds.

Birds collect bugs

and think of lining their nests

With moss and fluffy stuff

Warm and snuggled

For eggs and chicks

Farewell Winter.

See you later in the year

As the seasons turn.

Shiver

Posted on January 24, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Cold, Frost, frosty leaves, Leaves, Poem, Poetry, Prompt, SketchingLeave a comment

Sundays #bandofsketchers prompt was shiver…

Frosty leaves
shiver in the breeze,
Silver highlights
Make them bright,
Ice crystals like sugar
Sweeten their pallor.
A bad poem to go with this drawing of frosty leaves for the prompt.

Mallaband-Brown

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