Out in the snow again

Here are some pictures of Roy working in the snow and a walk we took through the policies.

More snow pictures

I loaded these pictures myself (dragging Livy from her writing to advise). That explains why they are a bit random in the way they are positioned.

Another walk in snow

There is much less snow now than there was, but it is still pretty deep. I was rather feeble and didn't feel up to a scramble down to look at the burn, still audible but completely invisible under ice and snow. The deer hadn't been in the wood in large numbers, if one can believe the tracks; but there were several places where they had scraped the snow away. There were some audible birds; but I don't know what they were and couldn't see them.

We think that some of the horizontal trees are ones that were not that way last time we looked; but we can't be quite sure. At some stage, we will find a friend with a chainsaw, or hire someone with one, to cut up logs (and help us carry them up the hill - a worse job). At present, though, the collection beside the house is serving us very well and the heap seems not to get any smaller. There certainly seems to be enough wood for this winter, at the sadly low rate of occupancy we have managed so far.

We hope to be back later in January, for a weekend.