Today Yorkshire was once
again covered in a blanket of white following five hours of constant snow. To be honest I’m amazed any of it settled as
the view from my window suggested that it was being pushed completely
horizontally rather than actually falling, but the picture outside tells of
another story.
Whilst Alby was less than impressed at being pricked in the
face by fast falling snowflakes, Percy was once again in his element. Charging and chomping his way across the golf
course had the reverse effect I was after – instead of wearing him out it
brought on a new lease of life and I had to forgo my warm living room for an
extra twenty minutes as we played snow-foot-ball in the back garden.
I can honestly say I had never given much thought to the
effect of rolling a wet football through snow but for those fascinated by
science, yes, it does indeed turn into a giant snowball as the snow sticks
thickly to the leather. Percy didn’t
know whether to chase the ball or simply eat the snow off it, resulting in a
rather stop-start-game complete with a very snowy chinnegan.
Whilst nature today was more vicious than beautiful, today’s
snow gives me the perfect excuse to post some photos I took about a month ago. I’ve seen many dew covered spider’s webs in my
life I’m not sure I’ve ever really seen frozen ones and I found these quite
spellbinding.
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