Awesome wonder

Sticki, these are stupendous photo's, fantastic.

fantastic photo's and blue sky too!:-)

thanks LL, thats very kind.
i was open-mouthed at some of the sights ~ glad no one was watching me ~ i would have looked very stupid but nature is incredible isnt it!?

blue sky but very cold ~ minus 6 i think but i forgot the temperature taking those pictures. thanks red

Beautiful especially that first photo of the tree tops and you managed to capture the Great tit and the Robin wonderful.

Stunning pics.. well done :o)

what incredible photos, absolutelt brilliant, going on my favs, thank you.

thanks everyone ~ wish you could have been here ~ except then you would have seen how silly i looked!
its that blue that inspires me ~ or the camera ~ took about 200!!!!

A winter wonderland, I like the berries, well taken.

great photos Stick, i love your neighbours jewels and the decorated berries.:o)

well done Sticki wonder you were'nt frozen to the camera!!

just beautiful

really lovely photos...

wonderful, despite the misery of the ice/snow these are truly beautiful.
nature is a marvel.

thank you ~ you are so kind, its really nice taking the pictures, knowing i can put them on here, i wouldnt have anyone to show the pictures to if i didnt put them on here ~ OH takes pictures but i dont think he likes mine much ~ i take too many!
i wouldnt normally show my pictures to people ~ you dont have to look if you dont want but you very kindly do ~ thank you!

I think they are wonderful pictures Sticki, I went out today and took a few myself. I haven't seen a frost like this for years, it is so pretty.

thanks cinderella
its quite a deep frost, it was a bit like this yesterday but without the blue sky the photos wouldnt work ~ luckily the frost got deeper and the sky was blue today ~ lovely sunset tonight as well ~ not sure what we will get tomorrow!?

Fantastic photos Sticki. Well done. I love looking at photos....keep 'em coming!

thanks gilli

absolutely stunning Sticki,and especially against that lovely blue sky...well taken,and glad you ventured outside in the cold..:o)))

thanks bloomer ~ came back in and made a terrible mess in the kitchen which i have yet to clear up ~ got all the saucepans out i think
made Pansy Potter's cheese and onion pie then Meanie's rice pudding ~ quite a GoYod day wouldnt you say?

Great pics, beautiful.

thanks bamboo

WOW, this blog is firmly in my Faves now, FANTASTIC photos Pip!!!!!

thanks pip, thats very kind. such a lovely sky couldnt fail really.

Wonderful photos Sticki. You've captured nature's beauty perfectly and doesn't she know how to give the perfect setting, that blue sky, for those who take the time to see and admire. Thanks so much for sharing them. I know just what you mean about having like minded people to share your photos with. Not nearly so much pleasure in taking them otherwise is there? My OH isn't interested in mine either......oh no, not MORE plants yawn yawn!!
No blue skies here, damp grey and COLD :o((

Absolutely fabulous photo's, the jeweled berries and the blue sky....... perfect !

A beautiful set of pictures, it is truly nature working her magic again! I also recognise the poem going to look it up in my poetry book;0)

Weren't you lucky to have blue sky - your photos are beautiful, even if they are frosty ones.

Yes, I think learned that poem at school. :-))

thank you ~ you are all very kind
very lucky spritz.
i cant find who wrote that poem ~ there seem to have been several variations of it!

Lovely photos! I know we all go on about frost and snow being so awful, but they do have their beauty. (I still look forward to Spring though! ;o)

Absolutely beautiful photos.

thank you thank you thank you!

Amazing pics you got there, Sticki!!! The white against that blue sky is wonderful!!! Love the bird pics! Hope that this is as cold as it gets for you! :-)))

Lovely pics Sticki :-))

thanks david and annella
i love that blue too ~ cant resist taking lots of photos of it. it was minus 9 this morning but no pretty frost ~ i expect that wont be the last of it!! not so bad tonight ~ just 0!!

Sorry, i almost missed this blog Sticki. Those two photos, the first and last, they are absolutely amazing! All the photos are beautiful, but those two are breathtaking! Thanks for sharing your walk with us!

thank you, its very nice to share!

some lovely photos there

thank you!

What an amazing set of photos.....absolutely beautiful.....

WOW!! Absolutely stunning photos Sticki . . . I think I sat open-mouthed at the first one. We had frost followed by another frost, didn't we, and the blue, blue sky just sets it off perfectly. You are an artist - thank you! (Just Googled the poem for you, it's by an American called Joyce Kilmer, so not exactly well known then.)

thanks sheila ~ i see you come from hertfordshire ~ thats where i was born!
i was open-mouthed as i went round ~ it was quite amazing! dont know about artist ~ wish i was! i found the name joyce kilmer but her poem seemed to be 'i think that i shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree'???? i got confused but i wonder if there was an earlier poem that she changed??? thanks for looking tho.

Beautiful photos Sticki, nature is wonderful isnt she?

very beautiful ~ thank you!

Im in trouble now cos OH has just read this blog and says he does appreciate my pictures!!! i pointed out that he didnt appreciate 200 of them ~ to which he had to agree!!!

so pretty!
I too have been thinking recently how beautiful even weeds are all of a sudden, the rejects of all the greenery for the rest of the year. This "rime" frost has given them a stab at glory for a change.
And the bit of poem made me smile a lot. When we were little and my Mum was feeling cantankerous she used to threaten to sing it (I should add she's tone deaf so not the most tuneful voice) so it has very happy, funny associations for me. She used to go tree-hee-hee at the end of that line, lol.

im glad it made you smile weeding ~ i think thats what GoY is for!!

Ah, rime - the other name for hoar frost - although according to my book, rime frost is formed from 'fog or water vapour' which is a different definition from hoar frost - except it offers hoar as an alternative to rime... all confusing, but whatever it's called, it is beautiful.

could it even be both, it appears that this frost grew over a couple of days/nights thus making it even more dramatic??

Strikes me that if my encyclopaedia offers hoar as an alternative to rime, then they're the same - they're just using different ways to define how they're produced, one talking about dewpoint and the other about water vapour and fog.
Funny though, I've only ever seen and heard rime used in "rimed with frost" rather than just rime as a description for the frost itself.

i hadnt heard it at all, until the last 2 weeks ~ i wondered if it was either an 'old word' that had gone out of popular use or it was a regional word ~ obviously not according to the dictionary!

Unless you do word games or crosswords, you're unlikely to come across it these days - I constantly lament the limited vocabulary in use these days, and the loss of literary references in speech - last time I pithily told someone "you don't have to do that, it didn't come down off Mount Sinai on a tablet of stone" I might as well have been speaking Swahili...

And just in case you think I am speaking Swahili too, its a reference to the ten commandments being brought down from Mount Sinai...

i didnt recognise any swahili!! i laughed and laughed ~ i was brought up not quite like a pharisee ~ wrong religion ~ but something like it! meetings 3 times a day on sundays and had to wear a hat!!!
i love that saying and i must remember it!!!!

I wouldn't bother - unless its someone over 50, or a Christian, they'll look at you like you're barmy, as they do me... pearls before swine, lol

Here's another 'pearls before swine' moment - I met one of my son's new girlfriend recently - cor blimey, all the charm of a norwegian glacier, frankly, but the word that sprang to mind really was 'basilisk' - but to my surprise, when I used that term, no one I know knew what it meant, they'd never heard of 'a basilisk stare' even, with the exception of my very literary sister, who knew instantly what I meant.

i know what you mean but i know a few in that catagory!!!!

they didnt know what a basilisk was??
but its in harry potter so i thought everyone would know that!!

I didn't know it was in Harry Potter - I was a great fan of Greek and Roman myths in my very early teens, read 'em all, so that's how I knew what it was. And the term 'basilisk stare' crops up in fiction quite often.

its a graphic term ~ i like it ~ think i shall practise giving basilisk stares myself!!
myths of any kind were not encouraged in our house! bible stories only!
i cant remember which book its in ~ one of the early harry potters ~ there is a huge basilisk [maybe they are all huge] that harry has to overcome!
vocabularly is poor these days ~ frighteningly poor in some areas ~ perhaps we should have a word of the day on here!!

Great idea, if the boys would let us - I had a couple of friends 20 years ago, and we'd find an unusual word and have to use it as many times as we could (appropriately) over a week. Fun at the time... I remember recidivist being difficult say, never mind use very often.

had to look that one up! there are plenty of them about tho!!! dictionary now out on the desk next to the computer ~ now i will have an increased chance of winning at scrabble!!!???
i may only be able to use recidivist sporadically or intermittently?!

just thought this could easily be done as a blog ~ which of course could be ongoing ~ word for the day?? it would save many of us from the threat of being a recidivist?

Might have to be word for the week - a lot us aren't getting out and about cos of the weather, currently, so unless you say it to yourself several times...

can you do a blog to advertise? your word power is better than mine

I'm considering this carefully - technically its not within the rules of the site, because everything must, by and large, be around the subject of gardening, so unless we include some gardening words, we'll not get away with it. And I can't think of any gardening terms not commonly used other than Latin and professional terminology.

ah, ok then ~ you can put certain words in your blogs and i will see if i can spot them and understand them and then use them myself!!????

Trouble is I don't very often write blogs! I'll give it some thought to see if and how it could be done...

ok ~ if i think of an idea i will do one ~ just thought you would be better than me!

interesting exchange there girls, trust you Bamboo to come up with an alternative to rime! lol

the 2nd HP Sticki-- Chamber of Secrets-- i'm a fan of the books :o)) ( or I'm a fan of books full stop!!)

thanks pam ~ snap! i love books too ~ but have never really grown out of some childrens books ~ the classic ones are beautiful!!
currently reading robert harris pompeii ~ OH suggestion, but i dont think its really my type

Fantastic chat . . made me smile (again). My younger son used to try and learn a new word every day (bit like you, Bamboo), and then brought it "nonchalantly" (a favourite of his) into the conversation. Great idea - our vocabulary is shamingly limited, when you think how rich our language is really. I'm a fan of books too and, yes, many children's books are well worth reading (I was lucky enough to work in a children's bookshop some years ago, and still have quite a collection). One colleague was Thomas Taylor, who did the cover illustration for the first Harry Potter!

oooh how lovely sheila ~ that must have been fantastic!
now i need a really good word to say fantastic ~ wondrous will do for now but i need to search for better than that ~ could have a word bank ready to say how incredible something looks!

Oooh, I like wondrous! . . . and superb, exquisite, breathtaking, ravishing . . . but we need more for just such a floriforous thesaurus!! :))

floriferous ~ now thats a new one ~ i think id like a thesaurus for christmas!

Let's hope for Christmas, you have your two front teeth ...

... if you would like a Thethauruth for Chrithmath... ;o)

im going to get called the mad woman soon ~ sitting in my kitchen on my own laughing out loud!!!
who would have thought that a gardening web site would cause so much mirth
i shall be singing all the christmas songs with a lisp now TT ~ well that should liven them up!!
while shepherdth watched their flockth by night
all theated on the ground etc

but on a different note:
While gard'ners watched their crops by night
From the warmth of their back door
The silent frost came creeping in
And covered them in white!!!!????

Sticki... you be careful ...
... all that laughing with the back door open ...

... front teeth might get frothty ... :o(

back door ith not open now ~ no frotht here ~ yet!!!
thnow forecatht for thaturday.??
my dad used to like to read me one of the beatrix potter stories ~ possibly jeremy fisher which included a character called mr jackson ~ mr jackson had no teeth!!!!
i think mr jackthon wath a toad!??

Thnow and thleet forecatht for Thaturday ...

tho, for thafety, thurround your planth with fleethe ...

in the bleak mid winter
frothty wind made moan
earth ath hard ath iron
water like a thtone!!!??

thnow had fallen thnow on thnow.....

thnoooooow on thnow
in the bleak mid winter only jutht last week?

and throm thurthday.......

Ha ha, looks like you all need a new set of false teeth, lol! Well done.
From my thesaurus Sheila/Stickitoffee - marvellous, splendiferous, dazzling, terrific, sensational, gorgeous, fabulous and loads more like brill, magic, etc., but nothing terribly unusual so far...

supercalafraga..thingummybob...

stupendous? but i wanted something better than that ~ have to make one up?

Some sound even better in "foreign" . . . merveilleuse, bellissimo, perfetto, affascinante, splendido, ravissant, superbe!! If you try this at home, you have to rrrroll your rrrs, and wave your arms about as well of course. (Just do it where the neighbours can't see you). :o))

ah bellissimo!!! fantastico! you are so right!
not so good at the arm waving and tongue is too short for rolling rrrrrs ~ bellissimo is therefore easier!!!
i think 'ravissant' should be said in a deeply sexy voice!!!

Mr Darcy-- the tv one.....

bellisimo, love that one, there's no r in it, because I'm afraid I can't roll my rrrs, if only I could, though the arm waving isn't a problem, lol

colin firth would do fine!
i will have to practise the arm waving!

he just stood there......

Love the blog and the comments. For some reason, I'm reminded of the blackadder episode where Dr Johnson boasts that his newly finished 'dictionary' (ten years work) contains every known word in the english language, whereupon Blackadder offers him his contrafibularities and drops in a few more 'commonly used' words of his own invention:-)

how on earth did you know how to spell contrafib....etc.? i havent heard of that word!!! i like the thought tho!

im sure we could make up some words ~ now that would be fun!! and as there isnt a spell check on here we wouldnt get any red lines!!!!

Ok....I googled Blackadder Dr Johnson dictionary, you can see it on youtube;-)

youtube wasnt invented when dr johnson was alive!!!!

Are you sure sticki?? I saw him with my own eyes only yesterday:-)

which eyes were you using?
i think you should have gone to spec savers but instead you went to boots didnt you ~ to buy baby powder?!!!

:-(

just plugged into this one again...
Bamboo, yes I think you do sort of write blogs, you just do them comment style following another blog sometimes - major contributions therefore.

Yeah, it's nice to use some new words, and resurrect old ones. Some really are dead or dying though and I think there is a usually a good reason!

One word I would happily never hear or read again now is "stunning" cos (fairly new word sneaked in there ☺) abso-bloomin-lutely everyone is using it day in day out.

Grump over.

Happy face back now.
x

i would like a good alternative to that s word ~ cos its a useful one ~ everyone knows what you mean
have you got any suggestions we could use instead?

How about "CRAP"? = Creative, Reminiscent, Artistic Pic/Photo????? :-)))

I like your style David...this has made me laugh,like a few other comments on here tonight...my OH thinks I have lost the plot..:o)))))))))

yes, nice one david!
or carp as it was euphemistically known in one place that i worked!

alternatives to the S word (assuming you don't mean sod as in turves) sugar, swizzlesticks, shoot, sacre bleu, merde...
And Weeding, you seem to be suggesting some of my answers are long enough to make a blog, lol - you're probably right, I've usually got plenty to say, can't help it, its in the stars, my Mercury (planet of communication) is somewhere chatty, forgotten where now...

Weeding, don't you think we need superlatives on here? I know when I see something described as stunning...I immediately want it ;-) Bamboo, the 's' word was stunning..I use it a lot on here, I tend to rotate stunning, fabulous, beautiful, amazing and lovely....nice just doesn't seem enough :-)

Ah, well that says quite a lot about my mindset then, doesn't it, ha ha! I can only offer stupendous then...

Lol Bamboo, I wasn't going to mention that, don't you think stupendous is over doing it a little? I think I would feel a little embarrassed (nothing unusual there)using stupendous ;-)

looking up stunning in my new thesaurus:
wonderful, beautiful, impressive, great, striking, brilliant, dramatic, lovely, remarkable, smashing, heavenly, devastating, spectacular, marvellous, splendid, gorgeous, dazzling, sensational, ravishing

stupendous is not far down the page bamboo ~ it suggests: overwhelming, fantastic, tremendous, staggering, breathtaking, phenomenal, astounding, prodigious, wondrous, jaw-dropping
you can take your pick!!!

Just thought, we could invent words , like Blackadder did. If it sounded really clever...everyone would look up to us.....we could be 'the Oxbridge set' of Goy! Thinking caps on..... my offering is sumptenderous....anyone else??? We could just drop them nonchalantly into sentences...what fun! :-)

Embarrassed, hmm, forgotten what that feels like, Bornagain, lol - not something I suffer from too much I'm afraid. Last time I said something potentially embarrassing, when I realised who'd heard me say it, I then said 'well I stand by what I said - I might have phrased it differently had I known you were listening, but the content remains the same'. If all else fails, front it, that's my motto...
And my sister uses stupendous quite often in speech.

Bamboo, my husband says being embarrassed is my natural state..he's right:-)

funny you should say that BA ~ as i was writing that comment i was thinking the same ~ make our own up ~ i like yours but i cant spell it by myself!
mine would have to be short and snappy
um,
er,
might have to be a neumonic [?]
WITS ~ wonderful, inspiring, tantalising, sensational ??

What, as in pnuemonic plague, Stickitoffee, lol! And oh you poor person, Bornagain - ditch the embarrassment, its much too uncomfortable to carry on living with. Funny, you've never struck me as someone with such issues, but I guess you can't tell on a website really... just tell yourself its okay to be wrong, or think differently or whatever - because it's fine to be you;-)))

or Gorgeous, Overwhelming Yummy....don't need to explain...:o))

yes thats the one bamboo!
BA i know exactly what you mean ~ i always feel its me thats wrong.
but then everyone blames me for everything ~ no wonder i think its my fault.

Goodness me ladies, I can't believe what I'm seeing here - I know the one about always being blamed, happens to me as well - but not for long, let me tell you, contrary to what they all think, I do not have 'it must be me' stamped across my forehead. Remember, women like to believe its them - that way, they might be able to change something if its in their control. If its others, then you can't change their behaviour (but you can, actually, by changing your own)...

i think thats very deep and when ive got to the bottom of it i think it will make good sense bamboo
it will take me a while to work it out
i have M U G tattoed on my forehead!!!

I'm sure you don't Sticki.unless it stands for Marvellous Upstanding Girl...:o)))....

Just been looking at the date you posted this blog and pics... 1 month ago, tomorrow,...I still love looking at your Photo's..gone on my Favourites..:o))

I should more accurately have said 'then you can't control their behaviour' rather than change. But you can change other people's responses to you by changing your own behaviour. Is that any clearer, Sticki?

yes i do know what you are saying bamboo, will have to try harder i think
bloomer ~ you do say the nicest things! ~ thank you!!

I made this blog a favourite about 3 days after you posted it - I must have a look to see if all the new comments are automatically added to it, or whether it stays as it was when you made it a favourite...

I wasn't quite sure what you meant by that last comment bamboo.

Blimey, been a long time since I said it, Stickitoffee - what I meant was, when you favourite a blog, it gets saved under your favourites, but I really don't know whether anything that's added to it afterwards gets automatically added to the favourite copy you've got saved, or whether it stays exactly as it was when you saved it.

I know it's been a long time but something reminded me of it and it's always bothered me.

Did you understand what I meant from my explanation? It was just me musing aloud really, or rather in print, that's the trouble with being a fast typist, you've typed it as you've thought it, lol!

Ah yes, I know what you mean about the typing, yes I did understand what you meant, at the time I thought you weren't happy with the blog - thought you were disappointed with the turn it had taken?

Well blow me down, not at all - wish you'd asked me earlier to clarify what I was on about.

Silly me. Very sorry, but glad it's sorted now. Thanks bamboo.

Hello! ☺ Still going?!
alternative to stunning = gninnuts

Weeding over and out x

Hello, wish I could do smiley faces on my computer.
How do you pronounce that word weeding?

is it like gingenuts do you think or does my mind invariably think in terms of food.......

showoff Weeding..... :0))--- see you have to lie down to see my face!

Yes, sorry I think of food first! Not sure it's ginger nuts tho!