Winter snow in the Valley

It's that quiet time of year...the time between the before Christmas rush and the frantic New Year Celebrations when time seems to slow right down.
 It's a gentle time.  A time for reading, knitting, resting,visiting and going for long walks and watching films.

It snowed all day yesterday and all day the day before that.  But today...ah today, the sun shone

 And it was time for a walk in the snow..

Libby the border collie loves the snow.  Loves to roll in it, sniff it, chase the snowballs we throw, wade in it.  She makes pretty decent snow angels actually.

And the shovel game - ah the shovel game.  I throw shovel fulls of snow,, and she leaps up under them and is showered by the snow coming down.  Face full of snow, mouth full of snow and demands for more and more and more until I'm too tired to shovel anymore.

The garden is very sensibly asleep,
Happy New Year.
Patricia
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