{"id":312,"date":"2013-03-19T14:44:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T14:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=312"},"modified":"2013-03-19T14:49:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T14:49:51","slug":"let-it-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"Let it snow!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We certainly got a false sense of security\u00a0 couple of weeks ago when we thought that Spring had really arrived.\u00a0\u00a0 But today we are right back to winter.\u00a0 The snow has not been as severe as we were promised and it is the wet and messy sort.<\/p>\n

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By the Water of Cruden at Hatton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So out I went with the camera.\u00a0\u00a0 The skeletons of winter trees attract me.\u00a0 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.\u00a0\u00a0 But that is for the future.\u00a0\u00a0 Today it is trees and snow.\u00a0\u00a0 Unfortunately they sun would just not come out so the snow lacks the sparkle that I had hoped for.<\/p>\n

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The Water of Cruden near Hatton Bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Water of Cruden near Hatton Bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While I was taking pictures on the banks of the\u00a0 the Water of Cruden at the Hatton bridge, I turned round and spotting this picture.\u00a0\u00a0 Again, how nice it would have been had the sun chose that moment to come out.\u00a0 But still I have managed to add another bridge picture<\/a> to my collection.<\/p>\n

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Looking under Hatton Bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I am aware that the pictures I have in my collection of Cruden Old Church are in summer sunshine, with blue skies.<\/p>\n

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Cruden Old Church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The production of a Christmas card (yes, it is only March) for Cruden Parish Church is under consideration.\u00a0 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<\/em> picture.<\/p>\n

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Cruden Old Church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cruden Old Church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What do you think? \u00a0 Are any of these pictures right for a Christmas card?<\/p>\n

While I was up at the church I spotted another tree picture with the spire of St James’ Chruch peeping through.\u00a0 I have produced it in black and white as something different.<\/p>\n

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Winter trees, Cruden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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. \u00a0 My dwarf daffodils which have ventured to bloom in the shelter of my apple tree tell the story.<\/p>\n

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Dwarf daffodils, Hatton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And the birds that are now nesting, thinking spring was really here must be wondering what has happened. \u00a0 My giant robin certainly does!\u00a0 (This is the easiest bird photograph I have ever taken.)<\/p>\n

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Big Robin Redbreast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We certainly got a false sense of security\u00a0 couple of weeks ago when we thought that Spring had really arrived.\u00a0\u00a0 But today we are right back to winter.\u00a0 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.\u00a0\u00a0 The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crudencountry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}