All White Now ....

Well, they said snow and we got it! It started about 10 o clock last night, and I suspect didn't stop all night. Here's one of the panels on my (sheltered) front door just after midnight. This morning after feeding my horse Tom-the-Tank I took a look around the garden, camera at the ready. This blip is the bottom of my triangular garden. - the area I call 'My Retreat' - a wonderful place to be in nice weather when I just want to sit somewhere very secluded, in contemplation. It's where my previous cats and my dad's 2 Yorkshire terriers are buried, a place of peace and a feel of total solitude, mostly enclosed by bushes and shrubs but with a view out onto my paddock. Somewhere under that snow is a buff paved circle (laid by my own fair hand). Seeing it like this it's hard to imagine sitting there in late spring, the lilac in the far point (behind the chair) laden with bloom and scenting the air, the nearby flagpole cherry and crab apples similarly festooned, and the stunning rhododendron (bottom right, hardly visible, in this pic) with almost fluorescent peach and orange flowers covering it. That's probably my favourite time of year to sit there. Then in early and late summer the air is full of the perfume of the Buff-Beauty hybrid musk rose (some stems visible here to the left) which adorns the archway leading to another area of the garden.
This has to be my favourite part of my garden all-told I think (over the last 25 years of creating it from nothing I've designed it as 3 distinctly different areas).
This is the top end of the garden this morning (each of the 3 areas has it's own seating).
When going out to clear Tom's stable around mid-day, this bottle-top-like chunk of ice on the trough took my eye - I liked the prismatic rainbow effect towards bottom right.
Here's Middy-cat surveying all around him and waiting patiently for me to finish my stable duties - and then "What are you doing down there?"

A music link (from a slight pun, lol) - the first band I ever heard play live (autumn '70), who I still love to this day - almost certainly their best known track.