We certainly got a false sense of security  couple of weeks ago when we thought that Spring had really arrived.   But today we are right back to winter.  The snow has not been as severe as we were promised and it is the wet and messy sort.

So out I went with the camera.   The skeletons of winter trees attract me.  I have been spotting a few that I would like to photograph when the light is right and if I can get myself into the right position, probably in the middle of a field with wellies on.   But that is for the future.   Today it is trees and snow.   Unfortunately they sun would just not come out so the snow lacks the sparkle that I had hoped for.

While I was taking pictures on the banks of the  the Water of Cruden at the Hatton bridge, I turned round and spotting this picture.   Again, how nice it would have been had the sun chose that moment to come out.  But still I have managed to add another bridge picture to my collection.

I am aware that the pictures I have in my collection of Cruden Old Church are in summer sunshine, with blue skies.

The production of a Christmas card (yes, it is only March) for Cruden Parish Church is under consideration.  I wondered if today’s snow would have produced an attractive winter picture. In the end, grey skies and not enough snow prevented what might have been the right sort of Christmasy picture.

What do you think?   Are any of these pictures right for a Christmas card?

While I was up at the church I spotted another tree picture with the spire of St James’ Chruch peeping through.  I have produced it in black and white as something different.

The radio news today has been drawing attention to the problems that gardeners are having with this unseasonably cold March weather, when they are thinking of getting going in preparation for the growing season.   My dwarf daffodils which have ventured to bloom in the shelter of my apple tree tell the story.

And the birds that are now nesting, thinking spring was really here must be wondering what has happened.   My giant robin certainly does!  (This is the easiest bird photograph I have ever taken.)