Today we had minus 5 deg C or thereabouts and I tried playing with bubbles in the frost, but they burst!  Then we went a walk up the hill behind the house.  There was blue sky and sparkling snow, but unfortunately all the snow on the branches of the trees came off with wind and the thaw earlier in the week.  Here's today's pics....

Feathers in the frost through the window

Bubbles

Bubble

Bubble 2

Burst!

Railway 23rd

Diamonds

Railway pond

Footsteps

Snow

Shadows

Tractor track

Glenbeg to the hills

Mountain

Plateau

Phew!  I should maybe restrict myself to 5 photos a day.  It would be easier!  

I found a video made from some snow photos from December 2009....

https://youtu.be/6UMLXrveS1M 

Now that was snow!   

Just made another from random photos from January 2010....

https://youtu.be/P0qm1a1pieI

And another ...

https://youtu.be/2ti41XInRws

Haven't seen snow like that since the blizzard of '78.

A smattering of snow I suppose you could call it in parts of Dorset in past few hours but not really proper snow and only rain here though for some people it's probably an event of a lifetime. Waiting for a deep cold easterly and powder snow as that's really the only way to get decent snow here. Hens teeth come to mind though.

Beautiful images esp the red squirrel. 

Perversely, about 5cm of snow here this morning, melting though...

Today's pictures - (they're getting a bit repetitive now....)

Tiny bit of iridescence this morning

Frosty snow

Woodpecker

Railway 24th

Top field 24th

Top field to Cromdales

Sheep field

Sheep field to Cromdales

Road to Glenbeg

Panorama

Cairngorm

Snowdrifts

Almost home

I need to take the bike out again tomorrow and go further afield.  

I will second that.

It always amazes me how Scotland is so close geographically yet weather wise, it sometimes feels like a different planet in terms of the amount of snow you get.

Thank you for the nice comments - glad to share.

Unfortunately it's been dull since the weekend, so I did some housework, but today, dull or not, I had to get out the bike….

The Old Spey Bridge

View to the West

View to the East

The Stone at the end of the bridge

Commemorative Stone in summer

Blurb about it

Grantown East Station (now a restaurant)

The New Bridge (built in 1931)

The Bathing Pool

The Old Cemetery

The old tree

Towards the Cairngorms, but they’re not visible today

The railway today – a tad icy for the bike!

More snow forecast... 

Nice pics again, Dizzy Daff. However, it really underlines what I say about your neck of the woods being almost like a different planet. It hasn't fallen below 7 C here since some time on Monday while you're still buried in snow!

Interesting inscription on the bridge - built in very different times not long after Culloden.

This weekend's snowy walks and the Big Garden Birdwatch

Railway line 30th

Top field

Cloud

Cairngorm

Minus 6 deg C when we set off this morning - Railway line 31st

Icicles

More icicles

Frozen grass

Railway line near the Lodge

East Lodge

Railway Halt

Castle Grant

Sheep

West Lodge

Visiting Goldcrest whilst doing the Big Garden Birdwatch

Murderer – twice this fellow spoilt my count!

Another inch or so today....

Ready for off this morning

Chapel Road

Snow clearing

Snow stopped play

Railway line today

Steps

Snowy owl

Close up 

The weekend walks –

As there was an Easterly wind, the snow had petered out before it reached us.  (We need a North wind.)  Further into the Cairngorm National Park – just 7 or 8 miles away, snow had been drifting, so there were a few minor roads blocked – nothing around the town though, so no exciting snowy pics, I'm afraid.

Railway line 6th Feb

Deer in the distance

Tree in a puddle

Craggan Pond

Grit supply

Railway line 7th Feb

Golf course

No golf at this end either

Hangman tree (supposed to be)

Woods (a boggy bit of them)

Icy track (old road) down to the river

Steps down to the river

Great pics ..................again , great winter for you 

Please can I have help in adding photos to this post.

It takes a wee bit of getting used to....

First, you've to upload your pictures to a image hosting website such as imgbb.com

You log in and select your pictures from your computer

Then you edit them to resize them, upload them and copy the embedding code - 'Direct links'

in this posting reply box, you click on the picture icon for 'Insert/edit image'

Paste the source of your picture into the Source box

So that it will open in a new window - 

Click on the link icon for 'Insert/edit link'

Paste in the URL of your picture again

Change target to 'New window'

eg

And you add a comment, such as 'Old snowmen'.

Up the woods today....

Hope that helps.  It's a bit of trial and error if you are anything like me - a retired IT teacher, who is hopeless with technology.... 

Thank you Dizzy Daff for your very kind helpful advice.

Another way, is that you can upload photos to TWO, and then you don't need to resize them, as well as appearing at the correct size on the forum (Brian must have imposed some kind of exception based on the image location).

Go to https://www.theweatheroutlook.com/photo-uploader.aspx and upload your photo. 
Click on the "My Pics" button, click on your photo to open it, and then right click and choose "Copy image address" (this is for a PC)

Then add your post on the forum, click on the image icon, and paste (CTRL+V) into the address field. Then voila!

(This is from 24th January, as we've had nothing more than a dusting here this week)

Thanks, Darren.  That worked.  Nice...

... but it also means that it is published on the Sky Eye Gallery as well.  I couldn't possibly publish all 10 pictures that way (every day). I would be hogging the limelight on the Gallery and folk would be scunnered of my pictures - if they aren't already! 

Good for a single photo.

Marvellous icicles! We went for a walk in what passes for snow in Chichester - at the end of the shower you could the individual snowflakes on your coat - on the fingers of your hands! 

Lovely pictures again.   

To give an idea of how some places have missed out on the snow have a look at these snowy offerings from the South.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-55985936

The total for here in South Dorset was far far less than any of those snowfalls even for the snow man at Barton on Sea.

Railway 13th Feb

Snowy Track

Tractor Track

Spouse

Climbing

Big tree

Towards the Cairngorms

New supply of sand for spreading

Usual spot

Drifting

Croft

https://youtu.be/ARYZpotrCNI

Photos and videos of the drifting snow on the hill