It’s snowing again today, but hopefully without conviction: just enough to dust the field behind the house, and coat the roofs of the garden sheds. Otherwise, despite the winteryness, there are more signs of spring everywhere – winter pansies in full fettle in Wenlock gardens, allium leaves pushing up through the soil, buds on the flowering currant, more hellebores emerging, snowdrops and catkins in the hedgerows.
The December snow days were very beautiful, but best remembered now in photos. Some of the following shots were taken in monochrome, and some I’ve converted. The header is a conversion, and it’s only in this format that you can see that the sun is melting the snow from the branches in a mini snowstorm. It isn’t dust on the lens. The photos were taken in and around the Linden Field and I’m posting them in response to Cee’s Thursday black and white challenge: out doors – walks and roads. Follow the link below to join in.
Tish Farrell 
Love them all but especially numbers three and four. I can imagine myself walking down that lane.. We haven’t had any snow yet….Enjoy 🙂
Thanks for coming snow walking, Janet 🙂
Still no snow here…and so I will be with you shortly 🙂
Delightful!
I love them in monochrome Tish
Excellent gallery of photos for this week. 😀
Many thanks, Cee. Appreciate your continued hosting of all the challenges.
It appears to me that monochrome images can sometimes create a more powerful impressions. Very well done, Tish!
Thank you, Peter. I’m very fond of monochrome, and I agree it can produce some striking images, sometimes, or often more so than in colour.
Nice images Tish – the proper stuff is much nicer than the cold wet flurries we have had today 😦
Great set of images, Tish!
Thank you, Sue.
As much as I hate to admit it there is something sad about the melting snow. Of course we here don’t get the “feet” of snow usually that some do but still it is a reminder that nothing last.
I can understand that feeling, Beverly.
So pretty!
Especially love the 3rd, something magical about the feel of monochrome.
Yes, sometimes it has a sort of Alice through the looking glass feel about it 🙂
Love them all, Tish, and the monochrome really works well with the snow and cold.
janet
I was surprised how well it works on some shots. Thanks, Janet.
They work very well in monochrome, especially the couple walking the dog and your capture of the melting snow. We had a brief dusting this morning, first snow I have seen down here in Cornwall. It was gone within a couple of hours though, the wet stuff that doesn’t really settle. No lovely photos like yours!
Thank you, Jude. Here the snow dusting froze, but we have sun this morning so it’s v. pretty.
Wonderful photos…and the dog is cute too!
Thank you, Tree. We seem to have similar takes on Cee’s challenge 🙂
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Your black and white photos are stunning! Great shots and compositions.
Many thanks, Cecilia.
What a winter for you to remember Tish, “best remembered in photos.” Lovely pictures, thanks for sharing. Bill
Thanks for coming back to Wenlock 🙂
Such beautiful picture postcard images Tish. I think snow photos seem to look better as monochromes
I think it does too 🙂
I just love a winter walk. Amazing that you already have signs of spring!
Today we had snow, hail, sun and rain, but still the garden is getting ready to burst forth.
Your creators feel old-fashioned and nice. Both my eyes and feelings get memories..
Many thanks for commenting, Dan.
excellent black and white