The Camera On Your Phone Is Handy, But....

....your proper camera, regardless of age, secondhandsness, and being totally out of date still does a better job. So after waking up to a very miserable looking morning with a slight but thorough snow covering, I took a picture through the bedroom window with my phone, which also doubles as alarm clock/watch, tweeted said picture and went back to bed:  http://snapshot.orange.co.uk/ekrjbv

 Inevitably I couldn't get back to sleep, and when crossing the landing to go downstairs looked out of the window and saw tiny patches of blue sky, phone/camera/alarm clock/watch still in hand I took another picture and tweeted it:  http://snapshot.orange.co.uk/2qyycj

Finally in the kitchen, I fought my way through the detritus of the previous 24 hours and put the coffee on. Dog is doing the doggy equivalent of crossing her legs and dancing about so I open the back door for her and observe that the snow is melting, the sun is shining and the bit of sky directly above me is without doubt extremely blue. So I look around the corner of the house to the view I don't have from any windows and realise I need to get out the proper camera...

But it is way too cold to be outside taking photos when I am yet to be outside a cup of hot coffee, so dog having done what she needed to do and barked at a couple of passing cats we retreat indoors and see what can be seen through various windows.  So back upstairs and the landing window, lots of blue sky now and the mist or low cloud is hanging over the river...

Now this makes the day look a lot more promising than the phone camera shot! This is looking more of less south,  the previous picture is looking more or less east. Our bathroom window looks to the west and the best views of moody skies (no trees in the way)...

Definitely looking chilly on the other side of the valley, we're lucky over her on our side, we don't get the sun first thing in the morning, but once it gets over the mountain in the first photograph, (we live just less than half way up it) we get the sun all day. Lastly, back into the bedroom, this window looks north, and to be honest, you wouldn't want to see our neighbours collection of off road four wheeled buggy things and his garage belching smoke out of the chimney, just what is he doing in there? Anyway this is what I can see if I look past all the nonsense...

 

And to me this looks positively spring like. I did take another photograph of the frozen ponds in the garden, but to be honest it was a little more depressing than the phone picture so you're not going to see it! Anyway, the sun is still shining and the snow is still melting and the dog is still barking at random cats and I really need to refill the coffee mug. It's just been pointed out to me that the weather forecast for next week is for more snow, so when I've posted this I think I'll get an online grocery order done,  just in case. As pretty as all this snow has been, I'm getting a bit tired of it now and if I was any good at sliding on ice I'd be at the winter olympics not struggling on and off of busses with bags of shopping. Enough, where is that coffee...