Photos of Nature and doing what you like!

Burnsey · 23-04-13, 06:32 AM

Originally posted by squeezyjohn

Maybe we do call it a hoar frost too here ... I've never seen it written down before! It's just one of those things that you say rather than write normally.

It is beautiful in the south of England but in a softer kind of way than the rugged landscapes you've been showing! I'm enjoying seeing it start to blossom this spring. Enjoying the warmth of the sun too!

Cheers

Squeezy

You piqued my curiosity - from Robert Frost's "After Apple-Picking" (1946)

.....I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight
I got from looking through a pane of glass
I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough
And held against the world of hoary grass.
It melted, and I let it fall and break......

Zimobog · 23-04-13, 05:43 AM

Squeezyjohn, I think that Alaska is younger, geologically speaking so it looks more rugged. North America's tallest mountain, Denali, is amazing. The Athabascan Indians say it was made during a battle between two wizards. Its like they saw it happen! I mean if our ancestors had witnessed the birth of such a mountain, how might've they described it?

Frosted · 22-04-13, 01:20 PM

I am not a hoar.

Yeah, and hedgehogs zimo

squeezyjohn · 22-04-13, 01:08 PM

Maybe we do call it a hoar frost too here ... I've never seen it written down before! It's just one of those things that you say rather than write normally.

It is beautiful in the south of England but in a softer kind of way than the rugged landscapes you've been showing! I'm enjoying seeing it start to blossom this spring. Enjoying the warmth of the sun too!

Cheers

Squeezy

Zimobog · 22-04-13, 01:01 AM

Squeezyjohn,
Glad you like the thread! It's all that was missing around here.
So that is really amazing you guys got so close to the spotted seal. My father has a sporran made of one's fur! I'm sure the kids were absolutely thrilled to see that close up like that. When we dipnet salmon, there are always seals out in the bay chasing the same fish we are. I have netted salmon before missing tails and with big bites taken right out of their backs from seals. They are really graceful in the water, even being mammals and all.

Those are nice winter photos also. That frost looks great. Here in Alaska we call that "hoar frost". I bet that meadow was crunchy to walk on. You know, there isn't anything more patently English to me than a green rolling country meadow with a nice hedgerow growing in it. Really a beautiful place.

squeezyjohn · 22-04-13, 12:08 AM

We're just coming out of probably the longest winter I can remember. I know I've been moaning about it on the "growing my own tobacco" thread - but here are a few pictures that make it all worthwhile.

These were taken on a brilliant haw-frost day on the field I have to walk through every day to take my kids to school. Love the wind-blown ice-crystals on the tree branches!

And these are of Christmas Day when we took the kids for a walk on the coast of Norfolk (Eastern coast) - We found some new friends on the beach:

Don't worry - we weren't terrorising the poor thing. It actually shuffled up to use us as protection from the adult male seals that were fighting each other on the shoreline. Very sensible! We must have seen several thousand seals on that walk - there is a massive colony there.

Absolutely brilliant and positive thread by the way - thank you so much for starting it off!

Zimobog · 22-04-13, 12:07 AM

Originally posted by squeezyjohn

A weasel is weaselly recognised,
But a stoat is stoatally different.

That's what my dad said! I think Stoats are quite a bit bigger than a weasel - ferrets and polecats are bigger still.

Lol! That's awesome.
A pole cat is what I would call a fisher (don't have them here) or a large marten (which we do have here). A tree climbing squirrel eating machine!

squeezyjohn · 21-04-13, 11:49 PM

A weasel is weaselly recognised,
But a stoat is stoatally different.

That's what my dad said! I think Stoats are quite a bit bigger than a weasel - ferrets and polecats are bigger still.

whalen · 21-04-13, 11:31 PM

Luv me some stoat!

Skell18 · 21-04-13, 11:26 PM

Originally posted by Zimobog

Frosted, remind me again what is a stoat? A rodent or weasel of some kind? What about hedgehogs? With hedges like those maybe?

Yeah bulls look all small from the fence but when you are in there with him... Lol. I noticed you said "walk" and not "run". Wise man indeed! Lol

Its like a pole cat or otter.

Zimobog · 21-04-13, 11:23 PM

Frosted, remind me again what is a stoat? A rodent or weasel of some kind? What about hedgehogs? With hedges like those maybe?

Yeah bulls look all small from the fence but when you are in there with him... Lol. I noticed you said "walk" and not "run". Wise man indeed! Lol

Frosted · 21-04-13, 11:18 PM

Originally posted by Zimobog

Frosted, that makes sense. I can imagine a whole flock of white Suffolk ewes up there just grazing away on the hill. Very nice. Is that in the North of England?

On the edge of North London. We get deer, rabbits, stoats, owls, hornets, brown snakes and of course foxes...think thats all.
Its cows and sheep. I walked through a field and all there was in it was a great big bull. I walked quicker.

Zimobog · 21-04-13, 10:02 PM

Some of the boys and I having a great time fishing, I am celebrating landing a nice fish there. For some reason I can't find the ones we took at the dock that show all our fish hanging up together which woud give you guys a better idea of the stuff we were catching that day: