Snow

[Shirley Roulston]

It must be quite warm after the snow Guy, otherwise why should the butterfly come out it wouldn't last long here, its was more freezing to-night than last night and I opened an upstairs window and got a sunset and got into trouble- letting all the heat out
Shirley

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[KeynvorLogosenn]

Hey look at your windows this morning!
And we are expecing more later, I love the snow! Who else has it? I can image most of the UK!
Just found that my school is closed for the day as well, so it can't get much better then that really!

I am going to go out in it and make a snow angel and things - I am never too old for snow angels!
What's your favourite activity to do in the snow?

[Padfield]

My favourite activity in the snow is butterfly-hunting. Here's a small tortoiseshell, photographed today, 2nd Feb, in the same frame as some snow! This was on my lunchtime dog-walk, at about 950m.



It's a bit of a rubbish picture, but it wouldn't sit any closer to the snow. The butterfly is at the bottom left of the picture, Emily - I hope you can see it!

This is the sheltered corner where it was flying:



You can see the snow has melted a lot at this altitude. This is because the Föhn, our hot wind, blew today, scything through the snow and ice. 'Föhn' means 'hairdryer' in German.

Guy

[KeynvorLogosenn]

Snow... butterfly .... Snow .... Butterfly. I'd never thought you'd be able to find them both on the same day!
I didn't notice any butterflies, I was hurtling down a hill doing my favourite winter activity... sledging! I went down all the hills I could find! There is a big one that is popular, the person next to me was using an airbed!! Now that's inventive!
I've also done
- giant snowball
- snowman, which is more of a snowthing
- snow angel
- snow ball fight
But no butterflies, I guess by you Guy, the snow has thawed a bit, were as here it's a gaint blanket!

[eccles]

We had our own fairy grotto three days ago in Willsbridge Valley near Bristol. We've had a lot more snow since but I got up shortly after dawn on that day and the light was superb.

[Dave McCormick]

Great pics Eccles. Its been a mix here. Rain where I live and snow 12 miles away. It even hailed for a time. I would have liked to get a few shots of snow, especially on the mountains, but I kinda somehow managed to messed up the sensor on my camera when trying to clean it, so I have to send it away to get fixed, so I don't really have a camera at moment.

Anyway, enough of my no camera rant, its not been too bad here. Snow in a lot of areas, but mostly just sunny and cold where I live with the occational snow and rain for little bits.

Kinda makes you think though, snow hits the UK and much of the place grinds almost to a halt, but other places in the world get snow and can do something about it. We need to be more prepared, even if snow does not always fall that often here.

[Charles Nicol]

i made this snow installation...entitled

Nel Mezzo Del Cammin

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i think it is Turner prize material


charles

ps not the Whitbread prize which is for books

[eccles]

There was a Souza painting featured on the Antiques Roadshow yesterday. The art expert mentioned that it looked better when view from a distance. I knew what he meant, the further away the better. Yours is a much better effort, Charles, and because it's made with the materials at hand, much more spontaneous.

[Charles Nicol]

thanks for that critique of my artwork eccles !!
unfortunately the top half has now melted so it won't appear at auction

charles