On Monday night the power nearly went off - the one remaining transformer (out of four) was hit by lightning.
By then even the drive was covered in snow.
On Tuesday night it was white again, so we caught a taxi to friends for dinner - only a ten-minute drive, but it was up a reasonably steep hill and I was too chicken to take the car out. They had a big snowman across the road, but it was too dark to take his photo.
It was great having Rosemary here - I wouldn't have fared nearly as well without her, especially when the snow gave way to freezing wind and rain. Despite being an Aucklander, she was completely unfazed by Wellington's worst weather for decades. The faithful heat pump kept us warm, helped by three layers of underwear and two of merino, and her company thoroughly cheered me up.
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I loved all the snow, and the snow pictures. We didn't have nearly as much of it here, so that might account for my delight in it, of course. The sight of our dwarf maples with a coating of snow, and next morning, and next morning, tipped with tiny sparkling drops of ice, was just beautiful. I kept on noticing the shape of things.
ReplyDeleteIt looks so magical, and when I saw the photo of your driveway, I thought it was a photo of a serene river. Snow on the fern fronds looks incongruous in a wonderful way,
ReplyDeleteWonderful photos.
ReplyDeleteLet's hope that global warming doesn't give us too many more of these severe weather events, though.
Alison