I love snow, and the music and poetry about it.

I love the poem turned into a carol which is “in the bleak mid winter”. Written by Christina Rossetti, the wife of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Snow is beautiful, in its hexagonal form, with amazing patterns that scintilate in the sunlight. There is also powder snow which I think is drier and forms in colder temperatures. I think there are other types but I’m not sure what they are like.

I’m no expert, I don’t know enough about snow. I do know it forms layers on mountains and hills and there are places in the snow that can form weak points so a horizontal layer of snow can slip and cause a massive avalanche.

The colours of snow can also be surprising. Shadows in snow can be very blue.  Look at paintings of snow and you will see beautiful renditions of it. I would like to be able to paint something like that.

Well this is not as interesting as I would like…..but it’s late  I might write a bit more later…