Frozen Landscape

 

I am desperately waiting for it to snow! Sadly, being in the 'balmy' South of England, we seem to miss the snow most of the time and everyone else gets all of the fun. We were trying to remember when we last had significant snow, enough to stop everyone in their tracks for more than a morning, and we think it was about 5 years ago? Maybe? Time plays tricks on you and as 2020 was a bit of a write off, it may have been longer since a decent snowfall.

So far this year we've just had a couple of frosty mornings and on the first big frost I was out there, all wrapped up, snapping photos to my hearts content. I love it when the frost is so thick it looks like everything has been dusted with sugar crystals. Even the smallest thread is suddenly enshrouded in a mystical crystal cape and solidified for just a moment in time. Because it's been so mild recently we've got quite a few flowers still going in the garden, as well as some super keen Daffodils that have been flowering for the last two weeks already!!

The seed heads have been left up over winter for the birds to pick over, like Sunflower heads, Poppies and Fennel which all of the small birds comb over. We do feed our feathered friends extra over the winter but it's just so easy to leave lots of your seed heads for them to forage and they look so pretty on mornings like this. The frozen spiderwebs were also an absolute marvel! You could really see the patterns woven into them and they looked like a finely worked lace. 

You could imagine a frosty Stitchscape inspired by one of these - covered in beads for that crystalized, slightly sparkly effect!