Icy Shores

We stopped at the shoreline on the way home the other day to find more ice than ever.  The boulders were heavily covered, and ice had obviously been splashing high up on the trees.

I've never seen the boulders so completely covered in ice.

The trees were another work of icy art, but access to the parking spaces is getting difficult as they don't plow the snow here in the winter, so it's impossible to get very close for pictures.

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In my previous life I gave talks on various aspects of natural history in the valley, or on topics like Scottish history and English gardens based on our travels.  I've recently been asked if I'd like to do the same thing again, so I've been devoting a lot of time to thinking about whether and how I could handle this.  Burying myself in my old photos and scheming about topics that I actually know something of and have pictures to illustrate.

I've finished selecting the top few (200?) photos from several thousand on our big tour of Italy in 2013 too.  Hoping to start pulling these together into a 'Blurb' book or something similar.

Meanwhile it's another supremely dull day here with a mixture of rain and snow, leaving us just staying at home after we were planning to go for a drive.  Temperatures that hover above and just below freezing are a dam nuisance; we'd like some good clean -5°C weather!