Most of you have probably seen the weather reports of London on the news. They received several inches of snow and the city basically shut down. We thought we were lucky, until Thursday arrived. We woke up to a very pretty snowfall that actually stuck around. Since then, we have been through sleet, snow and ice. The climate is quite interesting here as the storms literally blow in due to the ocean. It will be sunny and blue skies one moment, then within two minutes, it will be dark skies and blizzard like conditions. We have yet to see snow fall gently; it is really all or nothing here.
To present our weather visually, we have three pictures below that we took on a hike to Glen Affric when Erik’s parents were visiting us in mid-January. The photos weren’t taken in Aberdeen, but rather a mountain range outside of Loch Ness. This first photo shows what a beautiful morning it was when we were getting ready to start our hike.
This next picture was taken when we started our hike, the skies were still blue.
The last picture we captured as we returned just 30 minutes later after actually seeing the snow blow in from the mountains over the lake. We had hoped for a longer hike that morning, but were thwarted by the unexpected snow storm!
We hope everyone is staying warm and hopefully defrosting a bit. A special thanks to Warren and Jaime Ross who have been taking care of our house in Neenah, frozen pipes and water damage included…..
Cheers,
Marin and Erik
2 comments:
What great memories your pictures bring back. We loved our trip and still talk about it. Papa answers my cell phone calls with "wot's occurrrring!" It's neat that you're getting to the football matches. I think I'd enjoy the crowd almost as much as the game. I bet the chants get pretty funny! We miss you. Lots love to you both.
Ooh, we're really looking forward to coming. I hope that we'll get to see snow- it's been two years more or less since we last did. But I wouldn't complain about warmer weather either- and at least safe driving conditions.
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