Snowy!

Had seen a forecast for snow today, but the sky didn’t look threatening.  Set off for a walk at lunchtime and as I neared the village snowflakes started to fall.  St Ives was busy as it always is at weekends. I went to get a coffee to drink as I went round the pond, but there was a very long queue at the cafe so decided to forego that.  I reached the pond which was also quite crowded, but after feeding the ducks and swans I realised that everyone had disappeared, probably because the road was getting quite a thick covering of snow and many had come by car.  The route round the pond looked magical with the snow covered trees - the snow was coming down heavily now.  Large areas of the pond were frozen.  I only saw one other lady as I walked round.  She stopped for a chat, and said she was just back to walking after breaking her Tib &Fib at the end of last year - not really the sort of weather to be out in after doing that!.  Went into the bird hide and found 3 squirrels sheltering  inside - they stayed whilst I watched the few birds which were around.  Walked back home via Cuckoo’s Nest, stopping to look at Baxter’s Pond (dedicated to my brother-in-law) to see if that too  was frozen.  It wasn’t, but it is much more sheltered there. Lovely walk and not too cold despite the snow.  Good to be out.