After days on end of snow, icy winds and grey skies, I could barely believe it when I pulled up the shutters this morning: 2015 got off to a dazzling start.
A walk in the woods was in order, to test out my new boots. Although snow shoes might have been a better choice. I had some fun with the camera, trying to catch the sunlight peeking through the trees.
Still with me? Let’s finish off with a nice brekkie 🙂
Wow! Some absolutely gorgeous shots there. Magical.
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Aw, thanks 🙂 I’m nearly 95% defrosted.
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Beautiful shots Simone. Oh I am so jealous. Of the snow and the brekkie !
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I must confess, I cheated a bit… the brekkie shot was from yesterday 😉
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Wow! What a beautiful morning, lovely shots!
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Thanks, Sue 🙂
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Gorgeous photos! Makes me wish I was where you are! Happy New Year! May this year be your best yet!
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Thank you! Hope yours pans out a whole lot better than the last one did… must have been quite a trial!
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I hope so too! But i am more prepared should misfortune strike again.
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Happy New Year! What a nice start 🙂 Great breakfast and absolutely beautiful photos in the woods 🙂 xoxo Fanni
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Thanks! Same to you 🙂
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I love the 3rd one from the woods, with the ice in the middle, and the golden light. Beautiful.
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These are all really gorgeous shots! I just hope you didn’t lose any toes in the process.
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I think they’re all still operational…
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It is Narnia! Do you have that much snow in Bavaria? I may have to move south…
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Plenty of snow for everyone down here 🙂
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OMG!!! That forest creek is like, calendar-perfect. Why is Germany so pretty?
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It’s the cake shops 🙂
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The photos are so beautiful! Feliz año nuevo!!
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Gracias, igualmente 🙂
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LOVE the one with the frozen snippets of water but I’m happy to admire from afar. Happy 2015! 🙂
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We’d both prefer a sunny beach in Portugal, huh?
Thanks, Jo, same to you 🙂
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After looking at your stunning pictures in the sun-lit snow, I’m *almost* convinced to like winter. You captured some magic 🙂
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I’m trying hard to convince myself there 😉
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We’re having a green Christmas and New Year, which I don’t mind one bit. So, I’m delighted that YOU have the snow and the camera with which to capture the images.
All the best in 2015!
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It started green, then turned into this!
Thanks Maggie, same to you 🙂
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How wonderful a walk this must have been! Happy New Year!
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Thanks! Same to you. It was a great one, so nice without that ghastly wind trying to freeze my ears off.
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A winter wonderland! How perfect to start the new year. Have a great one Simone – with lots of calorific cake 😉
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I’m surrounded by cake 🙂
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I popped down and did that 2015 thing this morning. You’re welcome 😉
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You were my top suspect!
How d’ya like all them trees…?
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Lovely 🙂 I felt like hugging them 😉
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You’re still pissed form last night, I can tell…
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Well, I didn’t finish until 11am so it’s quite possible 🙂
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Those photos are fantastic! Exercise in nature’s gym is the best!
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My mum certainly got a good workout… she’s got a bit of a cleaning compulsion and can’t pass a tree without shaking the snow off the lower branches. She got some of it down her neck, which she didn’t enjoy, lol.
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Cleaning the snow off tree branches?? Now THAT is a cleaning compulsion!
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Gorgeous, gorgeous! Well done, you, on being functional today. 🙂
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Somehow my tolerance for cold weather seems to have gone down in recent years…very happy to enjoy some winter scenery through these beautiful photos!
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I don’t like the cold either, believe me. But when the sun is out and the air is still and you’re in the middle of the woods, it’s kinda nice 🙂
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Some things you can’t get in photos, like the feel of the cold in your nostrils, and the smell of the snow. I’ve always liked winter, I just haven’t had a proper one in several years.
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Yes, the smell of the snow…! I’d never really thought about that 😉
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Did you do some witchy trickery to get such gorgeous pics? I’m almost ALMOST under winters spell…. 🙂
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I heightened the contrast a bit in some of them, as you can probably tell…
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Hehe! Just like a touch of eye shadow or mascara to heighten beautiful eyes! 🙂
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Gorgeous photos, Simone. Happy New Year! Here’s to lots of cake in 2015!
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Yes, LOTS!!! Same to you 🙂
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Happy New Year! And yes, the snow made for a swimmingly nice New Year’s Eve!
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It did 🙂 I hope there won’t be any more… I don’t want the weather to mess up my return flight next week!
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Yeah. It’d be awful if you got ‘stranded’ in Bavaria in January because of too much snow! Haw haw…
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It’s not looking likely right now – so ein Sauwetter!!!!!!
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Wow, absolutely stunning pictures! What a great start to 2015!
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Storybook photos! But in real life I would leave the snow and take the brekkie! It looks epic 🙂
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It was a nice treat 🙂
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Happy New Year! Those really are some breathtaking photos!
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Thank you 🙂 Same to you!
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Narnia indeed… very pretty!
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I was enjoying the photos in the woods – a lot …. but then I started thinking, “Where’s the FOOD?” 🙂 You did not disappoint. I am so happy to be able to coast behind on the joy you coax out of every situation. Hug hug hug.
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Glad you liked it 🙂
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The photos of your last four posts are amazing (yes, they do include the cookies). Quite remarkably, I got to see the snow in the California desert this year. We are still freezing our asses off but I suppose it made for a more European Christmas. Happy New Year!
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Gorgeous pics, and I especially like the B&W ones.
A winter wonderland! Just glad it’s not here. 🙂
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Thanks 🙂 Just as well I caught it, it’s all melting away now…
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beautiful photos! happy new year!
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Thanks! Same to you 🙂
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it did feel like narnia – truly a winter wonderland and I love all the different angles and light reflections you give us – and of course some viddles at the end to warm up with… mmmm
happy new year!
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Thanks, same to you! It’s all but disappeared by now… we had rain and temps are above 0 again.
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Beautiful winter pictures! We just got a chinook blowing in, but back to -20C tomorrow so still winter here.
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Awrh….! I’m back in Spain now, to a tolerable -2 this morning. by midday, it’ll be a tropical 15 🙂
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Simone, you have such a lovely photographic eye. I’m quite envious.
Saludos,
Kim G
Boston, MA
Where the snow made it difficult to go out and get pictures of snow.
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Aw, thanks, Kim!
You’ve still got snow?!?
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Last night we got another 2.9″ to bring us to an all-time record of 109.something, or nearly nine feet of snow.
We were only forecast to get a half-inch, so they didn’t salt the roads, which resulted in a somewhat crazy drive back from the store last night. Fortunately, no mishaps.
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OMG! Soon you’ll be using your first floor windows to climb up the snow mountains!
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Actually, a fair bit has melted in the last two weeks, the couple inches last night notwithstanding. And the house has a tallish foundation, so it’s well off the ground, more so in the front than the back.
But a couple of weeks ago, I did dig a trench behind the house to keep the snow from touching the foundation as I didn’t want water damage or water in the basement. Initially the trench looked rather dramatic, but it has now melted enough that it doesn’t look so severe any more. Saludos. K
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Crisis management 😉
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