Outside the world is frozen and silent ~ tiny crystals stud the surface of everything in sight. Jack frost has been at work coating the countryside with icy beads all has become mineralised.
The light is soft and milky everything that is familiar looks magical and heightened.
Come with us (Mr.Boodle and I)
as we step out onto the crunchy grass, each blade edged with icy beading.
Come and see this rock salted frozen landscape.
The fence posts have been blanched and dusted with diamonds they are pale and magical, softly glinting in the difused morning light.
Barbed wire becomes decorous caked in its frosting.
Turning for home we see a kiss in the hedgrow
Home field has been turned to bone, ossified and ivory white.
Straight on to an art class where Virginia has grouped this lovely little cluster of natural coloured objects for us to draw as a warm up exercise!
Hmm, that lovely wooden horse fills me with a stab of fear..... I can't draw horses
But I do!
Enjoy your weekend
xXx
beautiful
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Lovely.
ReplyDeleteNothing but rain here. Time to welcome Jack Frost once more this winter.
I can feel the nip in the air just looking. It's been really bitter here, but nothing so stunning to look at. Wonder what your hourse looked like?
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Still wet up here in Suffolk, oh how I am longing for that crispness back here. Disasters due to the weather this week have included the beet harvester very nearly getting stuck in the wet fields!
ReplyDeleteOh for the cold, crisp days of winter to return.
Enjoy your sparkly winter wonderland.
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What a beautiful posting! Hope you thawed yourself sufficiently to hold a pencil to draw that horse!
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Such beautiful photos! So heartwarming.
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P.s. I'm a Sarah-Jane too, but just go by 'Sarah'!
Hugs, Sarah x
Stunning images!!!! xxxx
ReplyDeleteNothing better than a walk in the brisk air and hearing the crunch underfoot.
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Sarah-Jane, lovely photo's. When we took our dog out this morning, our part of the garden of England wasn't anything like as frosty freezy. We never fail to say on our walk how lucky we are to live in such glorious countryside. Is that the Kentish Maid in me speaking I wonder?
ReplyDeleteI love to see a British take on snow and ice....beautiful
ReplyDeleteHello, Sarah-Jane, down the lane! What a perfect morning. I just love how you and I see eye to eye on that "what is magic" thing. =] The morning light on home field is so beautiful!
ReplyDeleteLove, Katy Noelle
Beautiful photography. Love the ones of the fence line. I would love to take an art class like that. I bet you draw horses just fine :)
ReplyDeleteOh Sarah don't you know there is no such word as can't! Thank you for sharing your frosty ramble.
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Jo x
oohhh pretty pretty photos, I need to take a stroll on Hampstead Heath I feel a little city bound.
ReplyDeleteAmazing pics, I just love the frosty weather! Hope you enjoyed your art class.
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Breath-taking as usual, Sarah Jane down the lane.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing
Cheers
Fi
i love the poetry in your words and pictures ♥
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Fabulous frosty photos, beautiful!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful words accompanied with beautiful imagery! Lovely :) x
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