Show us the winter photos you have taken.....

No snow or ice here about but I had a friend on Flickr from Iceland who used to post some pretty interesting photos of ice. HelgaB has passed on but she also made a lovely garden seen here in August of 2009.

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Some of the details of ice she captured were other worldly to my eyes.

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These winter photos were taken 2 days ago of the village and surrounding fields..... despite it being freezing cold ..and ice on the ground... we often get these very blue skies in winter here in the South

This is the ancient village churchyard with graves dating back to the 11th century

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this small farm /small holding is literally next door to the church

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A very large Boar... overseeing his drove of pigs below..when he's not eating... he is very large ....


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what you can't see in this picture is that I;d walk across ice covered grass .. and it was only in this full sunny part of the field albeit cold that it had melted


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@hollydolly I noticed the old cemetery stones in the one photo and I wondered just how old they are. I love the area where you live and visit.

Do you sometimes feel like you are stepping back in time when you are at this church surrounded by those memorials stones, and even the quaint old villages that you have shown pictures of?
 
Imogene said:
@hollydolly I noticed the old cemetery stones in the one photo and I wondered just how old they are. I love the area where you live and visit.

Do you sometimes feel like you are stepping back in time when you are at this church surrounded by those memorials stones, and even the quaint old villages that you have shown pictures of?
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No I don't feel like I'm stepping back in time, because I've lived here for over 50 years ..all my adult life, so I'm very used to it as a way of life...

Some of the gravestones date back to the 11th century but they're not the oldest graves by any means in the area, there's several churches with graves dating back to 900 AD ...
I do think to myself sometimes how incredible it is that I'm literally standing on the same ground as people stood and worshipped or buried their loved ones... 1,225 years ago....
 
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