Day 13 – Winter Blaze (by sarah)

I love the sunshine through the woods especially in the snow - though I have to say I am relieved to live in a warm house these days and we haven't had good snow for the last couple of years. I've been looking at the sky alot since starting the paintings :) Also I have been listening to lots of the Celtic Women :) Mary refuses to believe that I am not one of the singers but this is purely as she had curled her hair in one of the shows and has a dress like mine.

Easter Snow (by sarah)

It's the Easter holidays and it is snowing so after dropping Mary off at the Nursery my dad helped me take some photos of the hills and things. This one is my favourite: Followed by this one of cracking ice: And then this one I took with the idea of portals or the Door to December: I quiet like this one of a farm house as well - the sheep and colours say spring but then there is snow on the hills: Then we have bleak landscapes mostly taken on extreme zoom! Click through if you want to see bigger images or go to the [here](http://photography.salaric.co.uk/?cat=10) on my photo blog.

Christmas 2010 (I think) (by sarah)

I think this is 2010 and that for actual Christmas we went down to Essex for dinner at my parents house but these are photos of our Solcist meal and general festiveness. Jean and Al playing with the marble run. King Alaric at the washing up again Garlic Bread - as in bread with garlic gloves in it :) Jeany sort of setting the table Jean decorating the MK 2 of The Little Book of Festive Poetry - I spent ages printing out out the sheets and glueing the words onto the pictures as the laptop I had couldn't cope with me trying to do things with large files! It snowed and I remember playing with Jean outside and me and Al taking it in turns! Tom and Jean :) Jean really could not get enough of being outside in the snow! It was the first year we found a yard of Jaffa Cakes! Jean ran off with them :) Sleepy Jean after all the fun :)

Snow Garden (by sarah)

More snow fell after I took the pics and I regret not having gone out with the birthday money sooner and gotten my camera as it ment I was restricted to the half an hour of Al getting ready for work and his smart phone! However I did discover that the broken camera still records film ok so I did take some vids of the girls which I will attempt to process later on! I made Al stop to take a pic of him as he left for work but alsa the camera went with him! But here is what I got! None of the kids paying sadly :( Though it turned out Mary hated the snow where as Jean spent hours out in the garden making snow angels and just walking around in it, sticking it too the walls etc... I made soup out of frozen veg in the freezer, and then Mary went down for her nap so I ended up building a snow man with Jean and having a snow fight where we both got covered!

Old Snow Pics from The Bakery (by sarah)

With the snow falling and having a broken camera I decided it was about time I dug into the archive and aired some of the snow pics that have been lurking around for the last few years. As I said yesterday I am both sad and happy not to be there anymore where snow is concerned. It was fantastic for sledding and pretty pictures but our water used to freeze and we couldn't look out the windows of the house for having to put bubble wrap on them to try and keep warm. The new house is very different with double glazing and central heating and so snow is not the issue it used to be. A heavy frost could have us stranded in the valley so snow was a complete grind everything to a stand still. Enjoy the pics - I'm sure there will be more!