Icicle

Believe it or not I have been waiting for a few years to photograph an icicle. Winters have generally been fairly mild or dry and cold. I used the Canon G5X for this as the touch screen lets me determine which part of the scene I want it to focus on. The Nikon can get in closer but no touch screen makes it more complicated to make sure the part I want is in focus.



The end of the gutter on the Summer House has a small leak so the frozen drips gradually built up as the day went on. A closer crop of the above photo shows the individual parts as they froze. Possibly some of the surface may be made of snow flakes blown on to the freezing water drops.



As the Sun shone between snow showers it eventually melted or just fell off. I saw a new one had started to grow after dark.

Spiky Winter Pansies

The baskets of Winter flowering Pansies were looking a bit under the weather yesterday morning.



It had remained foggy or thick mist most of the day with the temperature struggling to get up to 0C

It surprised me when the frost on the Summer House roof melted but immediately re-froze as icicles:



We had a few flurries of snow last night but most had melted by this morning. The Pansy flowers have perked up and are back to a nice display of Winter colour. No sign of icicles with the temperature now at 2C.

Brrrrr

It's definitely still winter.
Today's temperatures, so far:



Just put out the third lot of seed for the birds.
Always a toss up who will be waiting nearby, Robin or Blackbird:



Also had to change the pot of water I put out in cold weather. It soon freezes over.

Something I don't see much these days, icicles.
These have been slowly forming during the afternoon:



Though snowfall here has been sporadic, when it has come it is like blizzard conditions.
Yesterday it nearly all melted but not today.