"Look at it this way"

Had another snowy transformation of the landscape over the last few days thanks to some huge falls of snow in South Yorkshire, where I spent Monday night - Wednesday lunchtime. It rather messed up my original plans, but that's the British weather for you...

Pieter Bruegel: Hunters in the Snow (1565) One of the really rapid changes that can happen in a landscape is a fall of snow... In a few hours, the landscape can be changed utterly and made magical... This is what happened in West Norfolk over the weekend and the snow is still here... Below are some images I took yesterday in and around my village... Melting snow is also the unveiling of the old landscape, and sometimes with slush, it looks quite drab after the sparkle of snow... BORDER CHANGES on the border between Switzerland and Italy are part of this melting and its impact on the landscape. See you in the New Year with more supporting material for "Look at it this Way"....

Snow transforms landscapes. It hides their imperfections, and makes the mundane magical... or something... "We're very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel, they're like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They're two distinct types of visionaries, it's like fire and ice, basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water." Derek Smalls in 'This is Spinal Tap' Today, as with yesterday is a 'snow' / 'duvet' day across many parts of the country. The BBC NEWS reported the traffic problems in and around the country. They didn't mention that much about other parts outside of the capital, mostly London yesterday, but anyway. The snow has now moved North, and the chaos continues. At lunchtime yesterday it was out to collect my kids from their primary school, which has closed early due to the weather forecast being a worsening situation. This morning was an i...