In the bleak midwinter…..
…..snow had fallen, snow on snow…..one of my favourite poems “In the bleak midwinter” by Christina Rosetti which many of you may know as a
christmas hymn set to music by Gustav Holst…and it’s the first thing that came into my head this morning when I woke at 5.45.
Well, actually the first thing that came into my head was “Why am I awake at 5.45 in the morning” then I could hear J out on the landing and remembered he was getting up early today to get to Bracknell for a training course. The next thing that came into my head was “Why is J out on the landing taking photos?” as I identified the beeps and clicks I could hear as the noise of our camera.
Then I sat up in bed and looked out the bedroom window and then the first thing that came into my head was Christina Rosetti as I was greeted with site of a garden covered in snow.
This is the photo J was taking from the window at the top of our stairs
and this is the view from our living room
that’s Titania sitting underneath my acer trees where she sits in all weathers with the light spilling out from our kitchen window across the decking.
To those of you who live in places where it snows a lot this may not seem very exciting but to a girl who lives in the Thames Valley in the middle of England where it snows VERY rarely this has be dancing round the living room like a little girl.
Isn’t it amazing how much snow muffles sounds and changes everything? As I lay in bed before I got up I could hear nothing and then I tried listening for the sounds I can normally hear - the sounds of cars from the Marlow bypass about 1/4 mile away, the trains coming along the line from Bourne End to Marlow - no, I couldn’t hear any of them. It was wonderful
We have about an inch to an inch and a half I guess.
When it gets light I’ll take some more pictures.
January 24th, 2007 at 11:05 am
I am jealous of your snow. I have been waking up very early each day this week expecting to see a white garden, but nothing :0(
I thought now I’d moved further North I might see some snow once in a while, but it seems like I was wrong, especially as I saw on a blog this morning snow in Streatham where I used to live! However I’m sure I’d be moaning when none of the buses/trains were working, so I should be thankful really. Looking forward to seeing more pictures. SP
January 24th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
I love the way in which the snow here is brightening up such a dark early morning.
We havn`t had a sniff of the white stuff down here in Cornwall. It was raining fist thing and now it`s bright and sunny. Still bitterly cold though out!
You just have to go and build a snowman! The girls would love it
.. (and (shhh) …. secretly I would as well… hehehe)
January 24th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
unfortunately, as soon as the sun came up this morning the snow started melting and it has now disappeared completely from our garden
January 24th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Even up here in Saddleworth, on the border between Oldham and West Yorkshire, I was glad to see snow. The weather has been that weird we’ve had pelargoniums still flowering at the same time as primroses: that’s not right!
January 24th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
Those pictures are lovely. I’m so bummed that I missed it.
Funny coincidence, my husband was up early ’cause he had to go into Bracknell too, to work at a customer site.