Is there any such word?
Cold and shivery, if so!
Tiny ice crystals
Snow was fleeting in my part of the world, so I had to be quick with the camera. While Jude was loitering inside the glasshouse I was out in the fingerless gloves. Who’s the fool, I ask myself. Certainly not Jude!
When I was folder-ing these away, I came across some evidence that our hellebores really don’t seem to mind snow. Nor the rhododendrons, come to that. But then, don’t they come from the Himalayas?
That’s quite enough snowku for this month! I just sneaked a look at next month’s Garden Photography Challenge. ‘Monochrome’… over to you!
restlessjo 
You are so clever with your ‘snowku,” which I think is a wonderful word. The ice crystals are really quite beautiful against the foliage and those sweet little primroses. I’m going to be curious to see what you do with monochrome! 🙂
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Oh heck! I’ve not really thought about that one! Off to the Algarve on Monday. Lots of colour! 🙂 Thanks, Debbie!
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Beautiful JO ours are under ice with very few weeks till the melt and new growth begins 🙂
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I’ve been watching the Stateside weather, Eunice. Seems only the panda is enjoying THAT much snow 🙂 Thank you!
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🙂 Yes rolling around making snow angels 🙂 This week I will see 30’s and 40’s F and my lilac buds are getting plump 🙂
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Wonderful – I love those tiny snow crystals in the green grass. Very beautiful Jo!
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It’s moss growing along a stone wall, Inger. At just the right level to capture my eye 🙂 Thank you!
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A pretty snowku is a perfect way to make the most of a light snow drop.
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Thank you, lovely lady! 🙂 How are you?
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Strangely weary. Heat exhaustion? Daughter exhaustion? Too much holiday fun with my sister last week? A bracing walk in light snow would probably do the trick. 🙂
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It was milder today and I was at the beach. Still well wrapped up though 🙂 Heat can be draining (I seem to remember!) so take it easy!
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Cooler today, so I am feeling lighter and brighter.
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I’m reaching for a woolly jumper just looking at these photos Jo. I think I’ll join Jude in the glasshouse. BTW you could enter those brave primroses in this weeks WP photo challenge of “optimism”. Clever haiku, you are becoming quite the poet…
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Thanks, darlin’ 🙂 I hadn’t got as far as the weekly challenge yet, but I suspect you’re right. We’re only just back from Leeds and fit for nothing much 🙂
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Will there be more snowkus? I love a snowku. Or just snow.
I don’t know about hellebores but I can definitely testify to the survival of rhododendrons in the Himalayas. 🙂
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Absolutely not, Heather- this is a once and only. Rather sad, isn’t it? 😦 I’m really not a fan of snow. It just kind of crept up on me 🙂
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Oh. Well then, I shall just have to hang around the blogs of my other Northern Hemisphere friends for further snowy doses. I can revel in it because I don’t have to live in it.
Did you know we had snow last week? It was 43 degrees Celsius on Wednesday and then on Thursday the temperature dropped so much it snowed in the mountains. Life is never boring here. 😀
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I don’t mind if you take your custom elsewhere. Sob! 😦
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It’s not that bad. I like Portugal. And old buildings. And rugged coastlines. Got any of those coming up?
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I’ll do my best, but I can’t promise 🙂
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Amazing winter garden photos. The first one is my favorite.
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Thanks, Sartenada! We only had one day of snow, which is pretty much the way I like it 🙂
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These are some lovely images. Thank you!
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Thanks a lot! I’m not a snow fan, but a little here and there is very appealing 🙂
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Well, if there wasn’t such a word as snowku before, there certainly is now! I love these photos. I wasn’t quick enough with my camera when we had our little dusting of snow.
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Thanks, Elaine 🙂 We had just the ‘right’ amount of snow, if there’s any such thing. Here one day, gone the next 🙂
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I’d have loved it to stay around for a few days (just in the parks and gardens of course, not on the pavements and roads!) as it makes everything look very pretty.
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Nothing more perfect than a walk through the garden in winter without the voices of others, truly a snowku.
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So long as I can have a little sunshine sparkle, I’m ok Charlie 🙂
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That first photo – beautiful! And I love the snowku. Cold and shivery indeed.
Alison
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I need to start thinking warm thoughts, Alison 🙂 Thank you!
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Wow that first photograph is fantastic . . . . pleased though we’ve escaped the cold and ice! Having a drizzly day here today but yesterday was gorgeous, and the Spring flowers are beginning to dominate the landscape. Should be lovely and warm for your Algarvian walks in a couple of weeks 🙂
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Sounds good to me, Becky 🙂 Not exactly tropical here. Thanks a lot!
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Love your snow scenes Jo. We’ve had a few mornings of hard frost but I haven’t had a chance to take any photos, so I’m glad to see yours 🙂 Sorry I haven’t been over lately, but I’m catching up, very slowly 🙂
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No worries, hon! I never know what day you’re going to post so I often wait till you come for a walk with me before I visit yours. (unless I spot you in somebody’s comments 🙂 ) Hope you’re in for a smooth spell, Sherri. You’re certainly due one! Sending big hugs 🙂
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Makes perfect sense, you know I’ll always be over to you and you’re right, I never know what day I’m going to post either! And it will be even more random for a while methinks. Thank you lovely Jo, you’re a bright star shining in my world 🙂 xx
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So inspiring… 🙂
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And a little fun in the sun 🙂 🙂
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Their is only one listing on Google for the word snowku and it has to be preceded by winter garden.
Spell check don’t know it. All I can say is buteku post.:-)
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Cheers, Jack! 🙂 Spell check isn’t always right, is it? Boring world if it was.
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Jo, you made great snow capture and shared with us a lovely poem! Inspiring touches of winter…
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And had a little fun 🙂 Outside we have freezing fog today so I’ll be in the warm, watching tennis, this morning. Thanks, Ann!
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