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More snow pics! Well, we might as well make the most of it while it lasts - and it's pretty! Makes for a bit of scenery variety. :) While the rest of the country has been having snow on and off for a few weeks now, the few inches that fell on Cardiff last night was our first proper snowfall of the winter (we'd had a couple of short-lived flurries previously, but nothing that settled). It's been ice, ice and more ice all the way so far - and no doubt will have become so again by tomorrow! So, I took a few pictures while battling my way to work through snow that was not only still falling, but driving quite heavily into my face!

Since my shortcut through Bute Park, which runs behind the castle, is the only really scenic part of my journey to work, most of my pictures were taken there, but just before reaching the park I took this snap of the view north up the river, with the footbridge just visible up near the bend and the water bus stop off to one side. You can see clearly in this shot how heavily it was snowing at the time!


Now some views within the park itself - as usual, the gorsedd stones and the back view of the castle.




Here's the back wall of the castle, with the flag flying from the top of the old Norman keep just visible. It was here, incidentally, that William the Conqueror's oldest son, Robert Curthose, spent the last 20 years of his life - locked in the dungeon!


View south along the bed of what was once a moat, with the Millennium Stadium visible in the distance.


And the view from the window of my little attic office.



This pretty little wood pigeon often sits in the tree outside our window, whatever the weather.