Winter

Season of fogs and biting frostiness - with apologies to John Keats.

A couple of days of milder weather and rain has melted a good deal of the snow that sprinkled over the Midlands, but now the bitterly cold weather has returned bringing with it harsh frosts and freezing over the remains of the snow. When the sky is clear, the frost sparkles.



The trees and shrubs look spectacular with a thick coating of frost.


If you look closely, you will spot a robin sheltering in the bushes, against the fence.

The water for the birds has to be replenished every day because the cold weather turns the water into icy blocks, and the blocks remain frozen.

Spiders webs are so easy to spot when they are covered with a layer of frost - there must be quite a few spiders inhabiting that particular hedge.

But of course, as soon as the temperature rises, the fog descends and the spikes of frost begin to melt from the plants.