♫♪ I'm dreaming of a white............easter! ♫♪

Here's a few more pictures from my little jaunts and walks around my home town of Newton Stewart this last week.  

If I stand on the drystone wall that separates my garden from Doonhill Woods I get this view over the chimney tops to Cuil.

(So, I need to build a raised summerhouse)

The woods at Glenamour. There are two pictures here side by side, find the join ?

(If you look along the top of the pictures you could be mistaken. Along the forest floor it's an easy task)

An Easter egg or a Christmas pudding.

There's a sinister face here. Can you see it ? It Scares me !

The Palnure looking towards Strathmaddie

View from Old Bridge of Palnure. 

I'll get a couple of interesting pictures from here later.

A result of more tree felling at Bogue Wood

Bardrochwood House

This overhang of snow appears to be defying gravity

Up on Machars Hill I get good views of the Minnigaff range of the Galloway Hills.

From left here's Drigmorn, Red Gairy and Millfore.

It's a patchwork of drifts up here. It's a mighty slow thaw.

View to the South West

Windswept patterns make a snowy quilt

A view to Curleywee....................

............................and a closer look.

I had a look through my binoculars to see if I could find any intrepid walkers on any of the hills. If there was anyone I didn't see them. I know there'll have been someone trekking around.

Now here's a couple of panoramas of the Minnigaff Range 

This is the above picture on CleVR

Panorama of The Galloway Hills - The Minnigaff Hills on CleVR.com

This view can also be seen in glorious full screen here.

The Minnigaff Hills on Panogio.

Back at the Old Bridge of Palnure I spotted something diving way down the burn. I had to zoom in a long way, here's the result.

The only bird that I can see it resembling is a female Smew. If I'm wrong perhaps one of my ornithological friends could put me right.

I wonder if this is the last we'll see of the snow ?

(Apart from tomorrow's walk with the Wigtownshire Ramblers that is.)

A Snowy Walk in South West Scotland

Sunday the 24th of March 2013. It's stopped snowing and the sun is out. This is a photo story of a walk I took showing snowdrifts, animal tracks, the Galloway Hills, sheep and lambs and a couple of birds.
Music from http://archive.org. Piano Concerto No.21 In C Major Elvira Madigan and Sentimental Medley. Album ALANSARI ZAIN Piano 919, available from http://archive.org/details/b9rh.com_2111

Update.
N.B I've a feeling that the first piece of music is actually Elvira Madigan by Richard Clayderman. If it is a middle eastern artiste Alansari Zain then it's a note perfect copy.

Newton Stewart Snow Pictures - March 23rd 2013

Over here in the U.K if we get any adverse weather we can't cope with it. Most of the roads in South West Scotland have been blocked by snow or by vehicles sliding or jackknifing at some point over the last couple of days. Many power lines are down and a lot of communities are without electricity for a second day.

 BBC NEWS

23rd of March 2013

With today's walk with the Ramblers being cancelled I decided to have a look around with my camera.

My front door

Spot the enhancement 

I'd love a £1 for every shovel I saw today

I wonder if these souls feel the cold ?

Very little movement on the roads, there are still blockages east towards Dumfries

I was going to walk up to the mast, but since it was still snowing hard I realized I wouldn't get any pictures worthy of blogging

A lorry load of sand passing the Faith Mission at High Barbuchany

Whatever lives down here must have just had a quick lookout, saw the weather and went back to bed

A snowdrift

'snowbody on the swing

This wee lass was beaming from ear to ear, reminds me of pulling four on a home made heavy duty sledge

( Thanks for letting me take the picture Dad )  

Pristine White Out

Down Station Road

Queens Street

All traffic coming off the ferries from Ireland could get no further than Newton Stewart. Almost ever hotel, lodgings and B & B's were filled overnight. 

And it's obviously not over because over on the Galloway Gazette's Facebook Page, Scottish Power are looking for a hundred bedrooms (It looks like the power cuts are serious)

The flighty residents of the River Cree

Not much activity on the industrial estate

A Minnigaff canine on the riverbank

The town's very quiet for a Saturday !

Corsbie Road

Some B & B'ers hoping to continue their journey

I don't think that's sand from a bunker !

Adversity brings out the best in people

Hope ye didnae mind me takin yer picture boys, that's a big snowball

Blairmount pond

If I'd had some birdseed in my pocket I've a feeling this wee fella would have eaten out of my hand

My back garden

These last few pictures I took out of my kitchen window

Well it's now 6.pm, the snow had been stopped for the last hour...................... ..........................................................................................................................................................................it's back again now