5th January

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"Snow on the ground - snatched up by the wind that full of frosty particles seemed to rush from the valley up the moutnain, it galloped transversely from the middlemost of the mountains to their very top, and along their summits like a vast ghost cavalry scouring a country. Item, I distinctly and repeated saw the wind raise up from the mountain a true, genuine cloud of snow, that rose high... sailed along, a true genuine large white cloud with all the form and varied outline of a cloud - and this in several instances dropped again, snow at second hand, and often in the sun resembled a shower of diamond spearlets." S.T. Coleridge, 1804 (Westmorland)

"Saw the sun rise. A lovely apricot sky with flames in it and then a solemn pink. Heavens, how beautiful! I heard a knocking and went downstairs. It was Benny cutting away the ivy. Over the path lay fallen nests - wisps of hay and feathers. He looked like an ivy bush himself. I made early tea and carried it up to J., who lay half awake with crinkled eyes. I feel so full of love to-day after having seen the sunrise." Katherine Mansfield, 1915 (Buckinghamshire)

"There have been great winds, and the sea has been smoking white above the cliff - such a wind that it made one laugh with astonishment. Now it is still again, and the evening is very yellow." D.H.Lawrence, 1916 (Cornwall)


Snow in the very early hours of the morning!


And snow and sunshine together some hours later, and finally tonight a blazing sunset, although I didn't have my camera with me to take a picture, and it seemed to slide very quickly over the horizon today...
Byslantedlight, 2009 (Cambs.)