Winter cometh

The sun warm on my back this morning as I went for a walk in London.....

- Oh I did like that!

Dark hills, shadowed by clouds.
Bright hills, snow-lit.
Light hills, like rounded straw bales,
Side light reflecting off winter grass.
New Year's Day.
At midnight, ships' fog horns sounded,
A few bangs of fireworks,
And then, before I went back to sleep,
A little owl calling:
"Oi! be quiet there you peeps!
How am I supposed to hunt in
That racket?"
Quiet resumed.
I smiled and slept.

Yes when. Looking forward to brighter, longer days ......... just like the apple tree buds. That made me

Here are some for you Bags

❇ ❈ ❅ ❄ ❆

Didn't we have a snowflake emoticon once? I'd have included one of those too.

I like that too, butty

I always look for sunshine and brighter light on New Year's Day. It's such an optimistic day for me, and I'm never disappointed. I notice my apple trees have buds on them

The sky here was black at 3pm. Big dark clouds rolled in and unloaded on us just as we got back from lunch. It's still raining - trying to break that record for the wettest ever year for the whole UK.

Just lovely, Butty

Seems like a reasonable place to put this:

Consider your feelings and temperament as your seasons and weather
Fair will follow foul and the sun will come out eventually.

The sun shone today!

It's a good omen. Happy New Year poets and everyone.

Four o'clock in the afternoon and still light!
YAY!
Shepherd has just chuntered up the field on his quad bike
Looking for sheep, I guess.
He goes amazingly fast in that thing.
Just what you need on a boggy (very!)
Bumpy (very!)
Almost impossible to walk on
Hill field.

Wild up there! It's getting wetter and windier down here at the moment.
Went out earlier for the constitutional. Dry, mild day. One walker. One jogger. One child, a girl, on a motorised scooter. Dad in pursuit on bike. Perfect xmas present for todays child?

Happy "splooshing", Bags

Today the islands are misty, water-colour grey. They rise from a teal-green ribbon of horizon.

soop

We are getting heavy showers of sleet and then pale blue breaks in the clouds.

Driving round the loch
in slanting sleet.
Splooshing through the perennial
road floods,
wipers on top speed.
Grip the wheel,
keep steady and straight for that
second when you can hardly see
as the world puts on its invisibility cloak.
The cloak is pulled off and
Phew! you're through
till the next sploosh.
And then you leave an item behind in the shop!
Damn first, and then
Hey ho.
Grocery deliveries 
are easier!

A flash of lightning
a distant rumble
a pelting of hail-stones.
Playful wind chasing the waves
shouting down the chimney
rattling at the door.
Mountainous clouds
scudding across a patchwork sky
sometime grey
sometime blue.
A shaft of watery sunlight
pierces the gloom
and makes me smile.

I'm so happy to see some this morning. It's very windy but there's a muddy patch of concrete yard that needs sweeping and I need the excercise.

Also chillier here this morning, with the added delight of some

Oh well, the mild spell didn't last long – hills white again this morning. Glad we had the winter tyres put on.

Some brilliant poems on here!! seriously... lets all contribute, send it off to a publisher and call the book Granny's Special....not joking, I have had a few poems published, so I could do all the getting it published bit...What do you think Folks....

butty and [fresh green moss]

A late, bleak dusk walk,
Suited my mood
Trudged angrily
Spitting back at the rain
Leaning into the wind
Which swallowed my shouts
And the life of nature heard me
Held me
Invigorated me.

Yes, fresh green mossiness (lovely word) all around. Lovely.