Season of mists
As autumn turns
to winter here in the hills of Mid-Wales, this was the view from the field
behind our house earlier this week. Mist lying like spilt milk in the river
valley in one direction and drifting gently upwards across the fields in
another. This was weather for finding an extra sweater, stoking the fire and getting
on with another pair of warm socks for chilly feet.
When in doubt, hibernate!
Beautiful to look at from a distance, but certainly not very inviting! Hope you are both warm and cozy!
ReplyDeleteCertainly warmer than outside, Broad. :-) The great advantage of living high in the hills is that mostly the mist is below us and we can even be in the sun, while the valley below is shrouded.
DeleteBeautiful pictures, but it does look terribly cold. We are having a bit of chill here too.Stay warm.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Bonnie. We've been having the first real frosts of the winter this week, which to me are very much preferable to the dreadful rain of last week. At least I can go outside without getting soaked. :-)
DeleteYes, beautiful from indoors. I hope you don't get too much of that dreaded rain.
ReplyDeleteWhich is where I was admiring it from, Susan, while DH went out to photograph it with his new camera. We've been very fortunate here compared with many parts of the UK. Lots of rain, but not the dreadful flooding suffered in other areas.
DeleteIt was certainly a cold one last night. The pictures of the mist are so beautiful.I always catch my breath when across from us, the mist from the 'Moely' comes down across the valley and the top of the mountain is visible above it - it's wordless.
ReplyDeleteAnd it's going to be another cold one tonight, Molly. The temperature is already dropping like a stone. Brrr!
DeleteI can imagine you get very similar views to us as you're further down the same river valley and also surrounded by hills. I love watching mist gathering and dissipating, though it isn't so much fun being in the depths of it.
It looks like warm socks weather for sure, Perpetua, but so beautiful!
ReplyDeleteIt certainly is, Kathy. Already below freezing here, but we're snug and warm indoors. I love seeing the mist down in the valley as it hugs the river.
DeleteLove the description, Perpetua - spilt milk captures it beautifully. Cold here too and for the first time, quite damp. But now we have our log-burner so we too can snuggle up and feel cosy. Happy hibernation. Axx
ReplyDeleteThanks, Annie. It was particularly thick and white that morning - definitely full-cream milk. :-) I wish we were only now finding the weather damp, but it doesn't seem to have been much else this year. Sigh.... Sometimes I envy you your hot dry summers.
DeleteEnjoy your log-burner. There's nothing like a real fire to make a person feel cosy.
Your mists of spilt milk are so ethereal, Perpetua. I love the feel and aura of mists - except if I am in the midst of them. Enjoy those extra socks and your hibernation.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Penny. I must pass all the compliments on to DH, whose photos captured the mist so beautifully. It was an especially atmospheric morning that day. The new socks will be very colourful as well as warm. I can't wait to finish and wear them.
DeleteBeautiful pictures Perpetua. I love the way the mist lies like a sheet of chiffon, so you almost fell you could walk on it. That is, until it suddenly shifts and you see what lies below.
ReplyDeleteWe too have been having a freezing, but at least sunny, break from the rain.
Keep warm.
Thanks, Ray. I love your image of mist as a sheet of chiffon - so accurate and yet poetic. I certainly wouldn't want to try walking on this mist, as it covers a 500' drop into the valley below!
DeleteIt's been great to have a little time without rain, though we woke to more of it this morning. :-(
Beautiful! You can got lost in those mists both literally and figuratively! I would love to just sit absorbed in thought! Great photos, too. oxo
ReplyDeleteThanks, Debra. DH is starting to blush at all the compliments on his photography. :-) I love the unearthliness of a misty day and this was a particularly beautiful one.
DeleteHow beautiful. Mist along hills, mist in valleys, mist over water - I love it all. On Wednesday I was captivated by mist over the Arm and had to stop to take photos. There's something about such mist that makes me feel part of something other-worldly or out of time.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Pondside. That morning it was as though we had been set adrift from the rest of the world - like being on a desert island. DH was wishing he'd gone out even earlier than he did, as he felt he missed the best of it, but mist changes so quickly that you just have to capture it when you can.
DeleteLovely photos, mist gives things such an ethereal quality. We have freezing fog lapping round the house and the wood burner is working hard. Thick silk/wool mix socks are being worn as I type [though not handknitted :-(]
ReplyDeleteExactly, Antoinette, like the very best of special effects. :-) We get quite a lot of mornings like this in autumn, but this was outstanding. I do hope your freezing fog lifts soon. Everything feels so very gloomy when you can't see beyond the window. Certainly thick sock and wood-burner weather....
DeleteWonderful photos, (please pass my congratulations on to DH), which bring back fond memories of my three years of living in Lampeter. There I was living in the Teifi Valley but I can remember walking in the surrounding hills & experiencing similar views.
ReplyDeleteWe've had our first frosts here in Prague and the first serious snow has fallen on the hills & mountains outside of Prague but not yet in the city.
Thanks, Ricky. I think DH's head is starting to swell with all the nice comments. :-) You would certainly get plenty of misty days in the Lampeter area.
DeleteI think winter is quite late in arriving all over Europe this year, though here the north had some snow overnight and more is forecast. I imagine that Prague must look like a fairy-tale city in the snow. :-)
No mellow fruitfulness to follow though by this time of year... but so beautiful. I think I forget how lovely winter can be..... every year. In my present mood of appreciating absolutely everything, these scenes are particularly wonderful. Janice x
ReplyDeleteNo, a bit late for mellowness, Janice, and the poor summer meant it wasn't even very fruitful this autumn. Perhaps next year....
DeleteBut unarguably beautiful and I know exactly how you are feeling when you talk about appreciating absolutely everything at the moment. Life is beautiful and precious and after a wake-up call like yours (and mine in the past) we can't help but treasure every aspect of it.
When I look at the top photo, I imagine a traditional long white-beared God, leaning down from the heavens and stirring the clouds with a forefinger.
ReplyDeleteLOL, BtoB! Yes, it is rather Cecil B deMille, isn't it? DH said it was even more dramatic as he was going out of the house, but he couldn't get to the viewpoint in time. :-)
DeleteGoregous photos... really beautiful and mysterious. As others have said, lovely to admire from the cosiness of home!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Catriona. They do make it look as though we live on Wuthering Heights or somewhere else equally Victorian and Gothic. :-) |Best seen from the right side of a window at these temperatures....
DeleteWhat beautiful photos. I do rather love the bleak and misty, coming from the North York moors it's just as well.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Sue. Yes, we who were born on or near the northern moors cope with bleak rather well. :-) I'm from the Lancashire side of the Pennines rather than the Yorkshire.
DeleteLooks like a wonderful place for winter reading!
ReplyDeleteYou've said it, Linda. My big pile of library books is diminishing rapidly. :-)
DeleteHello, Perpetua! I thought that as I've been following you around commenting on the same blogs this morning I'd drop by to see you. Oh, what beautiful pictures! Your other commenters have said it all, really, but I do like winter and the photos capture its rather fierce beauty so well. A bright and blessed Advent to you!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Antonia and the same to you. Welcome to my blog. We have been rather like ships passing in the night. :-)
DeleteI'm glad you like DH's photos. He loves this time of year and I think that comes through in the images. This morning was quite different, cold and sunny and sparkling with frost.
'When in doubt hibernate' I like that idea - with my banjo too!
ReplyDeleteThere's no law that says hibernation has to be silent, Mark. :-)
DeleteI would love to hibernate too. The temperatures here took a dive this weekend suddenly to minus 3.
ReplyDeleteStunning pictures.
Thanks, Kerry. Brrrr, that's even colder than we've been having. The forecast is for a colder than average December in the UK, so hibernation it is.
DeleteDear Perpetua, I enjoyed the line "when in doubt, hibernate." It reminded my of May Sarton's line about what cats do: "when in doubt, lick." Peace.
ReplyDeleteDee. I'd never heard that line, but it is SO true. Thanks for that.
DeleteThis mist gives quite an air of mystery to the landscape. Here we do not get mist too often. I like it though when there is mist over the Civil War National Battlefield Park down the road, then I get a bit scared going through it…
ReplyDeleteIt certainly does, Vagabonde. One could believe almost anything of a misty landscape, especially a historic one like a battleground. We get a lot of mist in Wales and it always looks beautiful, though I hate driving through it nowadays.
DeleteWhat absolutely gorgeous photos. Beautifully taken.
ReplyDeleteI can see DH blushing already, rough seas. :-) He has a good eye for a photo.
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