Falling into Winter

Frankly, I prefer to ease into winter bit by bit – a heavier coat one day, adding gloves, changing from a summer Tilley to the old battered winter hat, and on to the whole boots, heavy gloves thick scarf and heaviest coat. This process ideally takes a couple of months, but not this year. It was minus 10 Celsius today, and I had to chip ice off the piles of leaves to gather them into bins. Once again the leaves from the pear trees appear set to be covered by snow before I can get near them.

But at least we don’t live in Buffalo.