The Birchwood

Snow again today - absolutely not forecast, but it has been snowing since just after 9.00 this morning and is now a blizzard. Cathleen and I were in Dunoon but got back here around lunchtime. By now the birchwoods around us look like sets for Dr Zhivago or One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch. I almost expect to see someone with rags wrapped round their feet emerge from between trees like these. What an extraordinary December in Argyll.