You will remember THIS entry of a few weeks ago about the snow and winter. Today was again a snowy day and this time, I had my camera with me!! Traffic was quite heavy on the small road I’m travelling, before I get on the main road. I couldn’t resist taking pictures, whilst sitting in the car, before moving on another car length, just to sit again for 5 min-10 min. To be honest, I didn’t mind the wait, as I could just sit – in awe. I couldn’t get enough of the beauty that surrounded me and thought to share it with you today! Enjoy with me these images and I hope you understand now why I got so excited about the views in the other entry. I loooove snow, it’s so white and pure…wishing all people on earth could be so pure.
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Please click on the images for a larger view.
Here’s a poem to enjoy! My 5000 words are done… now to hand in my assignment on Monday…hip-hip hurray! One more to go!
Wow, was just reading this entry about De Bono’s patterns of thinking again. Read what he says about creativity!
Shakespeare… again…my favourite
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
Act II, Scene 7 from As You Like It by William Shakespeare (1600) Blow, blow, thou winter wind.Thou art not so unkind
As man’s ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.
Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
That dost not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy sting is not so sharp
As friend remember’d not.
Heigh-ho!
Nice. Is dit regtig Engeland? 🙂
A propos, wat is die verskil tussen ‘sneeu’ en ‘kapok’? 😉
Hi Eugene – Yes, this is England! 🙂 ‘sneeu’ en ‘kapok’ is dieselfde…’kapok’ is ‘n ‘kristalagtige waterige ys’ – according to Wikipedia. [hehe] Iets soos ‘ysreen’. Jy wil nou net weer ‘anders’ wees! 🙂
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=kapok+sneeu&hl=en&tbo=u&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Or75UPUWyvLaBc6mgdAK&ved=0CFsQsAQ&biw=1018&bih=589
Whereabouts in Russia are you? You should have 3x this where you are?
There is quite a lot of snow in Cleveland right now. I’m glad I no longer have to drive to work in it, though. 🙂
I’m in northwest Moscow. 🙂
Hi Dan and Eugene – @ Dan – guess you enjoy the sleep-ins 🙂
@ Eugene – BRRRRRRRRR!!!
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6441/44860682.1a/0_7920b_23eb3c63_XXXL
hi Eugene…this is SO beautiful!!
In SA: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47042000/jpg/_47042649_782big.jpg
WHA WHA WHA WHA!! really South Africa, those baboons don’t look like typical Saffa-baboons….they look like Antartica baboons, they are too hairy!! [woolly too hehe]
HEY!! I was RIGHT! Look here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8443672.stm
LOL! you will not fool me about our animals…I thought they were too hairy and did a search on BBC’s website… 🙂 This shows you how well I know what a Saffa baboon looks like! hehehe
Knowsley Safari Park (on the link) is in Liverpool, UK. What they say about Canada there is “The only exhibits [in Knowsley Safari Park] that have been happy to stay outdoors in all weather are the park’s bison which are used to the extreme cold of North American and Canadian winters.”
Baboons in Canada, if any, are only in zoos 😉
lol..they didn’t say in the article it was in Liverpool, I assumed it was Canada, as they were mentioning Canada… 🙂 Thanks – you have much more time than me to search for places to know where they are… hehe… but can not imagine these baboons here..they are too many [in the pic] for this country, you can hardly move without going outside to think, there’s no space inside to think too. lol
Right, the pics seem to come from UK zoos. The animals are probably Kenyan 🙂
hi Eugene, if you follow my link, which I’ve found on bbc’s site, you will see they are from Canada… lol… I’ve seen baboons on the farm where I grew up, I could immediately see these are not ‘our’ baboons. 🙂