2018 NH Spring / SH Autumn Photo Thread

^ Amazing shot!

Just came back from a small bike tour. It's a sad depressing day. Quite windy as well.






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What are the trees bottom-centre and bottom-right? They at least seem to be alive, moreso than many trees even down here!

View from the kitchen window - this magnificent building is the SW half of the Grade I listed Buxton Crescent, which was built between 1780-1789 out of local limestone. It had been empty for a sunstantial amount of time, but is now under going a £50,000,000 renovation; in the foreground you can see the new Spa bath building which has been erected over the last two years.

I think the weather's pretty bad all over the country right now.

As a matter of interest, Buxton was built in this location deliberately - it was meant to be an area with cleaner, healthier air, for people to go and convalesce. 

Yeah that too, I was going to amend my post and add that. Combining the two is essentially the reason it was built where it is. The spa water, incidentally, flows at a temperature of a steady 27.5°C.

A picture my sis took whilst walking her dog last month.

You know what's great? When you have the thickest snowcover in years, possibly decades or forever, and it's April, and so you want the snow to melt, and it's 4'C, but it's a clear evening sky so instead of melting, the water starts freezing over.

(The hygrometer is completely broken, but the temperature reading seem to be surprisingly accurate; for example the nearest weather station was showing 3.9'C at that time).



The ice skating track isn't looking very good anymore after all the warm daytime temperatures... (Btw, it was 1.1'C by the lake (we live up on a 30m-ish high ridge), and -2.6'C by the other lake located in a 50m deep valley)


Up in the church hill I was surprised by how deep the snow was in this "cross section". More than a meter. (Om our yard the depth is about 90-95cm).


I was impressed by that until I walked down the hill and found this cross section of snow with about the same thickness as me. That stick is like 1.5m, and I had to stand on my toes on the road that's higher up than the field, to be able to see the actual field. So about 170cm snow depth. And as you can see, there's not a ridgeline of snow, but the snow is completely flat, and the field is not higher up than the road.

Fog literally is just a cloud touching the ground tho

After the snow last night the cloud cleared by noon and it was a beautiful afternoon. The temperature was still well below average at about 4°C but with the strong April sun there was a lot of melting going on. I went for a walk in the river valley with the dog.

The river was starting to melt in the sun. South-facing valley slopes are free of snow.


Meltwater on the river.


Forest in the river valley.


Sun-exposed bank reveals moss through the melting snow.


Last year's foliage.


Beware of wildlife.