Monday, August 15, 2011

Winter Wonderland

We have lived in Palmerston North for almost 20 years, and this is the first I have seen snow falling in the Manawatu. I had to drive home with the car like this after 1.5 hours of snowfall:
And as fast as I was scraping off the snow so that I could put the car in the garage, the snow drifts were forming again!
The hens were still sheltering under the hedge (where I fed them - they will probably be better off there for the night, than trying to get back to their house), and the lambs were trying to find something to eat:

According to the weather forecast, the next few hours are not going to get better.
Pumpkin soup for tea I think!

8 comments:

tizart said...

Beautiful photo's of the lovely snow. So pleased it started tonight before my little grandson went to bed!!!!! Very Cool pleased it's not quilt club night!!!!!!!!!

Ruth said...

Pumpkin soup. Yummy! I hope the chickens and lambs get something nice too! :)

tizart said...

Great Photo's. I am pleased the snow came before the littlies had to be in their beds tonight. I think most of them missed it last night . Now thats enough fun in the snow now we could do with some SUN SHINE!!!!!!!
Liz

Lynette (NZ) said...

Amazing eh? The kids had a ball :-)

Erilyn said...

Someone made a huge snowman up on Summerhill, it even had a carrot nose - pity I didn't have the camera with me! All gone now with the rain :-(

Unknown said...

Hi Erilyn hope you are keeping warm, seems weird you are having snow and here we are in the middle of summer!

Helen said...

Congratulations on selection as a finalist in Leah Day's The Transformation Challenge. I hunted your blog for your entry 'cos not all the links are working on Leah's page. I love your entry, it looks like a winner to me.

Erilyn said...

Thanks Helen - very lovely of you to leave such a nice comment!