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After a year with few flowers and no fruits in 2022, our cherry tree appears determined to bloom despite strong winds, icy rain and hailstones. Will it give us cherries this summer to keep the squirrels and chipmunks well fed and fighting over territory? We shall see. BTW any one who believes that squirrels are always cute should come see how they bully the poor chipmunks when they fight over territory for cherries. They sometimes remind me of human imperial powers.
A bit far away for a sleepwalker… Could not tell it was night or dawn, thick clouds hovered and connected with rising water sprays, combined to little hailstones or snow sands, hitting on the face…
It was very cold this morning, the sun was hidden forever without showing the face even for a minute.
If this is an addiction, this addiction must be related with heart...
Happy weekend my Flickr friends!
PS: Niagara Falls almost never frozen, unless temperature -28C or lower for lasting at least one week, even though, horseshoe falls never frozen... Here was the photo link I saw the "frozen" Niagara Falls...
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Snowdrops [Galanthus]
These little beauties have withstood quite awful weather in the last couple of weeks - freezing temps, gale-force winds, hailstones, snow, ice, and torrential rain. Today, the sun came out and they were absolutely resplendent in their bright whiteness. I love snowdrops!
In my garden,
South Carrick Hills
SW Scotland
“Return To Innocence” - Enigma
“Nor will I then thy modest grace forget,
Chaste snowdrop, venturous harbinger of spring,
And pensive monitor of fleeting years.”
Wordsworth - “To A Snowdrop”
(cropped)
Après une nuit d'orage et de grêle...( After a stormy night the remains of hailstones )
Pyrénées Orientales, France.
Mieux en grand, better in large, click L
After a mainly dry, sunny intervals type of a day, suddenly late afternoon it began to become very overcast and dark, resulting in this totally unexpected hail shower, short but sweet
The icy north wind swept over the landscape so strongly that your fingers quickly became ice-cold when taking a picture and the few snowflakes hit your face like small hailstones.
How many times in a lifetime do we find ourselves thinking " IF ONLY"
It maybe that you regret not trying harder at school and are in a job you really don't like.
It maybe words you wished you had said to a loved one who has passed away.
It maybe I wish I had a better camera, if only I could afford one.
There are so many senario's
On this occasion, my " IF ONLY" was a wish, for that sky to move around a little.
We had waited in the car for what seemed like an age, while the rain poured down, hailstones fell and the tide which should have receded, was still high.
I hoped eventually it would pass over and I would be able to capture something.
I'd not seen a sky like this for a long time, such depth and full of colour.
It was a little difficult trying to dodge the waves, eliminate the glass collectors, get a reasonable shot at the right speed, this was the best I could do " IF ONLY"
This spot is in the Southern Flinders Ranges, just north of the delightful town of Burra, South Australia.
It was mid-afternoon and a storm front was passing through with bands of rain, hailstones, and a gusting wind so strong that I found it impossible to stand in the one spot as I had to continually move about to avoid being blown off my feet.
I turned my 4W/D sideways to form both a wind break and shelter from the rain which soon eased, and this scene was captured through the open window of the driver’s door.
As can be seen in this capture, the sky was a swirling mass of clouds of every description, all rushing headlong across the sky as they headed south.
It was absolutely freezing cold, and the forecast indicated that snow was possible. As far as I know, snow did not eventuate however, I soon headed for warmer surrounds at Broken Hill before returning a couple of days later.
Fortunately this lot missed me 😁 Did get pelted with hailstone later. Looking over towards Fairfield from Holme Fell.
Upload 700! You poor loves 😂
A return to winter this week, with gales, snow and hailstorms. The gales have taken the hailstones from the big barley field behind us, and piled them against the house! In the evening sunlight, the field looks quite benign!
Happy Monochrome Thursday! ;o)
B/W Tinted and Mono Here
My landscape set Here
The field behind set: Here
An arctic blast is making it hard for the early Japanese plum blossom to survive and shine. I was out shooting the snow and sunshine, when a sudden hailstorm came down, and even got inside my boots! 😊
Happy Fence Friday!
Fence Friday photos set: Here
Winter through the lens Here
my Plum blossom set: Here
Turton, Lancashire
Cadshaw Brook runs in to the Turton and Entwistle Reservoir. Shortly after this image was taken the heaven’s opened and we got a battering of hailstones!! Ten minutes later the sun was out!!
BEST VIEWED LARGE!!
We had a real bad storm here in Kent last night with 2" hailstones and at sunrise this morning we had mist and fog, this is the marshes close to home which was completely flooded but topping that was a fabulous sky and those reflections!
Another quick getaway from this large supercell as the large hailstones start to bombard the already hail dented cars.
After months without rain, a violent hailstorm over the hills of Soave, Veneto, Northern Italy. Looking toward the Illasi valley from Castelcerino.
Five minutes later, we were engulfed with hailstones the size of golfballs, but had the time to seek cover.
There are so many extremes in the spring weather across Canada this year already. Heat waves for some, golf ball hailstones for others, raging fires and then snow in the Rockies in June! What will the summer bring? This is a multiple exposure image of my tulips earlier this spring. Fingers crossed we all get a break from the weather extremes next season.
Snowing just south of Ryton Junction in the Strzelecki Ranges, South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.
On this day the temperature was a freezing low of 2C and, at various times, there was fog, mist from low clouds, rain, sleet, hailstones, snow, strong winds, blue sky and sunshine .
Acts 27:8 “With much ado we weathered the cape and got to Belhaven near Lasea.”
There’s a storm on the horizon and who can escape? It will scar the land and its people.
Revelation 16:21 “From the sky huge hailstones, each weighing about a hundred pounds, fell on people. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible.”
still lots of Siskins coming to the feeders, caught this one in a fleeting patch of sunlight before the hailstones resumed.
One from yesterday. It was a funny old day weather wise, very cold with rain, snow and hailstones but I was not bothered in the least after seeing and watching this beauty.
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Walking along the shore of Loch Assynt in the North Western Highland Region of Sutherland in Scotland, I was hopeful of finding the mythical mermaid that is said to live beneath the waters.
Alas, just like not seeing the Loch Ness Monster a few months earlier, I was to be disappointed.
However, I did manage to find this beautiful little tree island just before sunrise. The promised sunrise, just like the mermaid quickly disappeared and the sun was never to be seen again - the Scottish clouds and rain quickly turned this tranquil scene into one of a photographer quickly running back to his car fighting of the horizontal falling hailstones...how the weather systems change so quickly in the Scottish Highlands.
My partner and I drove back from an art trail yesterday in Leicester some 12 miles away and got back into Market Harborough to flooded roads and everywhere covered with tree debris and hailstones.
Quite surreal to feel ice cold hail in my fingers on a day that had reached a temperature of 30.5°C.
This scene is from today's storm as the sky clouded over and I felt an eerie charge and stillness in the air. Clearly the birds felt it too and they quite literally appeared in the frame as I took the shot. Moments later there were claps of thunder, flashes of lightning and what seemed like a week's load of rain in just 15 minutes.
Red Hot Chili Peppers ~ The Zephyr Song ~
It's cold, blowing a gale and we've had showers of hailstones so back to normal British Bank Holiday weekend weather!!! Hope it's better where you are.
Many thanks for all the kind comments and faves on my images :))))
jumped out of the car after the hailstones stopped to capture and within 5 minutes they had all but melted away
Cumulonimbus is a dense, towering, vertical cloud,] typically forming from water vapor condensing in the lower troposphere that builds upward carried by powerful buoyant air currents. Above the lower portions of the cumulonimbus the water vapor becomes ice crystals, such as snow and graupel, the interaction of which can lead to hail and to lightning formation, respectively.
When causing thunderstorms, these clouds may be called thunderheads. Cumulonimbus can form alone, in clusters, or along squall lines. These clouds are capable of producing lightning and other dangerous severe weather, such as tornadoes, hazardous winds, and large hailstones. Cumulonimbus progress from overdeveloped cumulus congestus clouds and may further develop as part of a supercell. Cumulonimbus is abbreviated as Cb.
Notre-Dame des Neiges de Louargat is a church in Louargat, Brittany. It is one of the religious sites in the village, along with other churches and chapels such as the Église Saint-Eloi, chapels of Saint-Jean, Saint-Fiacre and Saint-Paul, and the Sainte-Chapelle Marguerite. Louargat is known for its rich religious heritage. The church is located on Place Roger Madrigou and can be found on Mappy, where you can also find photos, a map, and reviews. Louargat is a charming village in Brittany and, in addition to its religious heritage, also offers opportunities for nature lovers, with the Forêt de Coat An Hay, the menhirs of Pergat, and the An Dossen tumulus.
I thought…why display a good image with such a dramatic sky in colour only? The rain and hailstones came soon after. Taken on a 7 mile recce club walk in mixed weather conditions.
When people think of Provence and the South of France, they tend to think of sunshine, olive groves, and lavender fields. Although we do get a lot of sunshine, Provence is not always like that. To set the record straight, here is a picture - taken in mid-March - of a hail-stone (grêle) storm.
This is a panorama of the view from Moel-Y-Gest, a hill of 260 m to the west of Porthmadog in North Wales, shortly after a rain and hail storm. The Tyddyn Llwyn campsite can be seen in the lower central section of the panorama, while the Dwyryd estuary and parts of Porthmadog are just visible in the clouds in the background.
Ezekiel 38:22: “I will punish you with plagues and death. I will send rainstorms, large hailstones, fire, and burning sulfur on your troops and on the many armies with you.”
Captured this one just before another down pour . Thankful for the trees behind us to take cover from the hailstone that followed😅
Hail is a type of precipitation, or water in the atmosphere. Hail is formed when drops of water freeze together in the cold upper regions of thunderstorm clouds. These chunks of ice are called hailstones
I always take loads of snowdrop photos but never really like any of them because I find them so hard to photograph, but after a bit of messing about with textures etc. I came up with something I liked enough to post. And it seems topical enough because despite the calendar saying 'it's Spring!', the weather is telling us different and it feels much more like 'snowdrop weather' with heavy frosts and the occasional blast of hailstones here this week.
But it's Friday so can't complain, wising everyone a great weekend :)
A double rainbow over the High in Oxford today. A reward for braving the torrential showers, hailstones, and dodgy Oxford pavement slabs.
The High Street in Oxford, England, known locally as the High, has been described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "one of the world's great streets". It forms a gentle curve and is the subject of many prints, paintings, photographs, etc.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
Great Spotted Woodpecker having himself a feast
Spent the day with Mike on his allotment again.. always a productive day
we had sunshine, rain, thunder and then hailstones... what a day
and still the birds came back
Pop down to Brighton today it was so windy and changeable weather just manage to get a shot in before the Hailstone and heavy rain came down, please I only did a second and a half exposure because the lens was getting wet with the sea spray
This rainbow photo was a reward for braving the torrential showers, hailstones, and dodgy Oxford pavement slabs. The e-scooter just sort of caps it off, I think.
The High Street in Oxford, England, known locally as the High, has been described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "one of the world's great streets". It forms a gentle curve and is the subject of many prints, paintings, photographs, etc.
The tower is that of the former All Saints Church. Founded in 1122 on this site, on 8 March 1700, the spire of the church collapsed, destroying most of the building; the current building was completed in 1720. It was designed by Henry Aldrich, the Dean of Christ Church. Nicholas Hawksmoor is thought to be responsible for the tower and spire.
In 1971, All Saints Church was declared redundant and the City Church moved to St Michael at the North Gate. All Saints was then deconsecrated and offered to Lincoln College, located immediately to the north of the church. Since 1975, after conversion, the building has been Lincoln College's library.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
National Trust Properties
Anglesey Abbey, Quy Road, Lode, Cambridge, CB25 9EJ
Anglesey Abbey
Built between 1100 and 1135AD on the remains of an Augustine Abbey. It was endowed as a priory in 1212 by Richard de Clare. It remained as a priory until 1536 when it was closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The Priory was largely demolished and in 1595 it was rebuilt as a Jacobean-style house and owned by the Fowkes family. The house had quite a few occupants, notably Thomas Hobson (of Hobson’s choice), his son-in-law, Thomas Parker, a barrister. Samuel Shepheard, a Cambridge MP. Anglesey was not always a place of residence with these various owners, at one time it was leased out as a farm. When Thomas Parker died in 1647, Anglesea changed from Priory to Abbey.
The Reverend John Hailstone purchased the property in 1848 and carried out many renovations. He converted the monks’ day room into an entrance Hall. He then added a stable block, then a service wing and undertook a programme of plants many trees which are a great feature of the grounds. Cedars, Wellingtonia, Acer, Silver Lime and Weeping Elm are just a few of the trees found there. The Reverend stayed in residence until his death in 1877 and his widow sold it in 1877 to another Churchman, Reverend James George Clark. He with his family lived there until 1912.
In 1926 the abbey was sold to the brothers Broughton, Urban Huttleston and Henry Rogers, they were very keen on horse racing and they purchased it because of its proximity to Newmarket and their stud farm near to Bury St Edmunds.
More changes to the property were made, the work done by architect Sidney Parvin, who worked for Turner Lord of London. It was featured in the 1930 edition of Country Life. In 1934 Lode Mill was purchased, it is now used for grinding corn.
In 1966 on the death of Lord Fairhaven, the Abbey was left to the National Trust.
The gardens are well set out, there is a walled garden filled with many plants and wonderful borders of colour. There is a Dahlia and a Rose Garden also a Hyacinth and Narcissus Garden. There are many statues in the grounds which cover close to 100 acres or 400,000 m2. There is also a wonderful avenue of trees as well as Silver Birch avenue close to the entrance. There is a superb walk from the house to the Lode Mill, alongside the river. Excellent to see in Springtime. Hopefully this will open and be enjoyed again in the not too distant future.
A definite house and garden to enjoy.
In the backround of the girls is a Greek monument called the Tower of the Winds. The name of the Wind at the left of the girl's heads is LIPS or LIVOS
The names of all the WINDS are:
Boreas – North - A bearded male wearing a tunic and cloak. He holds a shell trumpet.
Kaikias – Northeast – A bearded male in a tunic and cloak. He holds a shield full of hailstones.
Apeliotes – East – A young male whose cloak is filled with fruit and grain.
Euros – Southeast – A bearded male whose cloak billows in the wind.
Notos – South – A young male in a tunic and cloak. He is emptying an amphora of water.
Lips – Southwest – A young male in a cloak. He is holding the stern of a ship.
Zephyros – West – A young male whose cloak is filled with flowers.
Skiron – Northwest - A bearded male in a tunic and cloak. He has an overturned metal vase which has spilt hot coals.
National Trust Properties
Anglesey Abbey, Quy Road, Lode, Cambridge, CB25 9EJ
Anglesey Abbey
Built between 1100 and 1135AD on the remains of an Augustine Abbey. It was endowed as a priory in 1212 by Richard de Clare. It remained as a priory until 1536 when it was closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The Priory was largely demolished and in 1595 it was rebuilt as a Jacobean-style house and owned by the Fowkes family. The house had quite a few occupants, notably Thomas Hobson (of Hobson’s choice), his son-in-law, Thomas Parker, a barrister. Samuel Shepheard, a Cambridge MP. Anglesey was not always a place of residence with these various owners, at one time it was leased out as a farm. When Thomas Parker died in 1647, Anglesea changed from Priory to Abbey.
The Reverend John Hailstone purchased the property in 1848 and carried out many renovations. He converted the monks’ day room into an entrance Hall. He then added a stable block, then a service wing and undertook a programme of plants many trees which are a great feature of the grounds. Cedars, Wellingtonia, Acer, Silver Lime and Weeping Elm are just a few of the trees found there. The Reverend stayed in residence until his death in 1877 and his widow sold it in 1877 to another Churchman, Reverend James George Clark. He with his family lived there until 1912.
In 1926 the abbey was sold to the brothers Broughton, Urban Huttleston and Henry Rogers, they were very keen on horse racing and they purchased it because of its proximity to Newmarket and their stud farm near to Bury St Edmunds.
More changes to the property were made, the work done by architect Sidney Parvin, who worked for Turner Lord of London. It was featured in the 1930 edition of Country Life. In 1934 Lode Mill was purchased, it is now used for grinding corn.
In 1966 on the death of Lord Fairhaven, the Abbey was left to the National Trust.
The gardens are well set out, there is a walled garden filled with many plants and wonderful borders of colour. There is a Dahlia and a Rose Garden also a Hyacinth and Narcissus Garden. There are many statues in the grounds which cover close to 100 acres or 400,000 m2. There is also a wonderful avenue of trees as well as Silver Birch avenue close to the entrance. There is a superb walk from the house to the Lode Mill, alongside the river. Excellent to see in Springtime. Hopefully this will open and be enjoyed again in the not too distant future.
A definite house and garden to enjoy.