Snow and that

Heavy, when used as an adjective often indicates that you are talking about a weighty subject or even a big person. In East Lothian heavy now means SNOW… lots and lots of it. When you have as much snow as we are getting you start to differentiate between light showers and heavy showers or even prolonged periods of heavy or indeed light snow. The snow in East Lothian has mostly been heavy and has either been the prolonged period or showery variety. There has also been the occasional light shower, just to fill in between heavy snow, a bit like a snack between main meals. All of this means that there are abundant beautiful scenes in the town and countryside to photograph. I have been doing just that with my new Cannon digital camera.


Harvey and I have been trudging through the snow and ice for weeks but the cold and atrocious conditions do not bother him at all. At some points the snow has been up above his shoulders. He just bounds over and through it and has a great time. He has also developed a habit of snorkelling under the snow and coming up with snow covered, icy bristles. Having a lot of fur helps of course.

As we have been walking through the ice and snow, I have noticed signs that the good people of East Lothian are becoming adapted to this weather. Last Sunday for instance, the snow ploughs were out and the paths were being cleared before the snow had even stopped. In the office, we are talking about what it will be like when we return to above 0 degrees freezing conditions… it’s bound to happen sooner or later.

Harvey told me that he would like to send you a Christmas message and here it is.

MERRY CHRISTMAS WOOF WOOF

Snow, snow and more snow

It’s snowing outside and has been for over an hour. The flakes are the small to medium variety and there are millions of them, covering the big snow dump we had three days ago. I saw this one coming. Harvey and I were visiting John Muir Country Park. It was bright, sunny and very cold, the machair, between the beach and the car park was an ice rink. The beach was empty except for Harvey, the big breaking waves and me. We were enjoying ourselves, running along the edge of the sea, chasing sticks when I became aware of the dark clouds on the horizon. They looked ominous and were a total contrast to the bright sunshine. We continued our run around the headland and across the tidal flats to the woods and then back to the car park. By this time, the dark clouds had become darker, with a black centre. There was a terrific crash, which turned out to be thunder and lightening. It was turning into a scene from ‘Lord of the Rings.’ Snowflakes began falling and I decided against driving to Innerwick and into the blizzard; instead I high tailed it back to the sunshine in Haddington. It didn’t take long for the black clouds to catch up with us but we’ve not had any thunder and lightening... yet!



Harvey and I have been taking a rest over the Christmas and New Year holidays. We are now fully rested and will be blogging away over the next few days. A belated HAPPY NEW YEAR to all who follow blogs.