"Earth stood hard as iron,water like a stone": no "snow on snow" yet but some is forecast. Suffice to say that late this afternoon, up on the hill, under a cloudless but darkening sky, it was so cold and so still it wouldn`t have been a surprise if the ground had started to splinter and crack.
At lunchtime, with the sun as high it was going to get for the day, it was a gorgeous sparkly landscape, the cold spurring us on to walk even faster than usual.
Frosty where the sun hadn`t penetrated,
frost-free where it had or under some of the trees.
Meanwhile, the early mornings have been offering other delights: the slowly waning moon has been high in a clear sky an hour or so before the sun comes up and three days ago sported a perfect double rainbow ring. If that isn`t a portent for something it should be.
Given the forecast for wind, rain and maybe that snow overnight, might not linger up there for quite so long tomorrow morning............
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