We managed to get a wee bit of a walk around this park today and for some reason it was almost deserted. What has happened to all the kids?
Maybe they’ve been busy playing in the park all week as the schools were closed and they’re fed up with it all now, but there wasn’t any evidence of them, no snowmen at all. Had they all been dragged to the shops by parents keen to get Christmas shopping done?
As you can see, the pond has frozen over and there were footprints in the snow which is on top of the ice but it really isn’t safe to walk on it as I’m sure it isn’t thick enough.
The weather forecast is predicting another very cold week ahead for us so it might be as bad as last year was. You can see here a photograph of the park which was taken during the Christmas holidays last year.
This is the refurbished fountain which had to be taken apart during the so called summer because somebody forgot to turn the water off last year and the resulting ice must have damaged it. It doesn’t look nearly so nice now and I suppose it’ll take a few years for it to weather nicely.
Strangely there doesn’t seem to be nearly so much snow in the park as there is in the streets and gardens.
I swear snow only falls where it will create the most havoc for people!
We’ve not had much snow yet this year, but that’s really okay with me. We had enough last year to last for a while. Lovely photos though–snow is very pretty to look at, just not so much fun to get around in. Do you usually get a lot of snow every year?
Danielle,
The snow has come about a month earlier than it did last year. It looks like we’re in for another bad winter which will be about the 3rd or 4th in a row. It’s always worse in the east than the west, which is another reason for preferring the west. It does look pretty and it would be great if people didn’t have to get to work on roads that are pretty grotty at the best of times. I hope we don’t get any more but I bet that we do.
Having lived most of my life in New England, I’m very used to cold, cold weather and several feet of snow. But, one winter, we had snow every single day for a week! We had to shovel the driveway each time it snowed and I swore I’d never do that again! Oh, for our lovely little condo in Boston!
It doesn’t snow much here in Philadelphia, at least we don’t think it does. Slipping and sliding on the sidewalks is the worst thing here. Be careful walking!
Joan,
We’ve had about a foot of snow but there are big drifts where it has melted off our roof. I think it snowed every day last week although most of it was during the night, you wondered what you were going to wake up to. The schools are going to open tomorrow so my husband will be back at work but the forecast is for more snow later in the week.
We walked to town today and the pavements are fairly treacherous in places because the surface snow had melted a bit and then frozen over again so it’s like a skating rink, we went onto the road as it is safer, there’s hardly any traffic about. It wouldn’t be so bad if we had had a summer but 3 warm days can hardly be called summer!
I imagine that in New England you would get used to it and have special snow tyres or chains, like they have in Canada, which must make life a bit easier, and you would have good weather to look forward to. I feel like hibernating!
My husband is a heavy equipment appraiser for insurance companies, so, especially in New England, he needed a vehicle that could go anywhere. He decided to buy a Land Rover D90, the real utility vehicle, not the posh yuppie one. A few days after we bought it, IN APRIL!, we had several feet of snow. The Land Rover backed right out over all the snow and my husband said, ‘Money well spent!’ We used it to rescue friends several times during blizzards. He had to sell ‘his baby’ when we moved to Philly, though. Not really needed here and no place for an expensive vehicle on these city streets.
Joan,
I think that is the type of Land Rover which farmers use here, great for going around the steep terrain of hill farms. Land Rovers seem to last forever too, we had a friend years ago who was much keener on spending time with his Land Rover than time with his wife! I bet your husband didn’t enjoy selling ‘his baby’ but in cities any sort of vehicle can be a liability.
The depressing thing is that we might easily be having weather like this in March/April, that’s more normal for us. It snowed again overnight so the schools are closed again, it’s getting beyond a joke.