Sweeping Snow on Place Fell
Winter Scenes from Patterdale and Ullswater March 2013
After yesterday collection of photos of Red Deer on Place Fell, I thought I’d post some others taken over the last week or so around Patterdale and Ullswater as we’ve been enjoying our unseasonal snowy weather.
Once again apologies to my loyal band of Twitter followers as you’ll have seen most of these before…
No real order to them but I think for what it’s worth of the many hundreds that have clogged my hard drive in the last week these are probably the pick of the bunch…
Lake District Views
Some stunning views out across the fells over the last week. Here are some of them – mostly taken from Place Fell….
Patterdale in the Snow
View Towards Kirkstone
View across Ullswater to Greenside
View of Place Fell – Layer Cake
Patterdale in the Snow
Morgan on Place Fell looking South
Ullswater Views
As one would expect England’s most beautiful Lake, Ullswater, has been looking pretty good too..
Ullswater View
St Patricks Boatyard Ullswater
Jetty at the Southern End of Ullswater
Morgan over Ullswater
Trees and Sheep
It’s always amazing how a but of snow can make things you see everyday seem just that bit more beautiful – like trees and sheep!!
Snow Trees in Patterdale
Keldas Trees above Greenside
Patterdale Tree
Hardy Sheep
Sweeping Snow
The wind has been howling at times and whipping up the snow. Fun to be out in if a little on the cold side. Not sure I really managed to capture it but here are my lame attempts…
Sweeping Snow on Place Fell
Place Fell Rock
Place Fell Snow Storm
Morgan in a blizzard
Snow Fun
Obviously the snow has also provided great opportunities for the usual sledging and fun and games, and the drifts at the weekend on Place Fell also gave our son and his mate the chance to build their first snow hole…
Snow Hole Fun
Morgan has of course had great fun, although I’m not sure he appreciated being used as a snow depth gauge…
Morgan assesses the depth of the Snow
He did have more fun trying his hand at sledging. Shame he forgot his sledge…
Morgan Tries his Paws at Sledging
Cedric
We have a rather incongruous stone figure outside our back door which is a relic from our days as city dwellers in London. Anyway he serves a useful purpose these days as a snow gauge – so here he is over the last week….
Cedric over the last week
Final thanks as always to my long suffering walking companion, Morgan…
Morgan questions my sanity again
For more pictures of our adventures in the Lake District around Ullswater, Patterdale and Helvellyn, please follow Helvellyn on Twitter. You can also follow Ullswater on Facebook and Helvellyn on Facebook. If you want to come and stay in the Lake District, all these photos were taken within a 20 minute walk of our pet friendly Patterdale Holiday Cottage.
Enjoy and have a great Easter….
Gorgeous! I’ve never seen the Lake District like this before. Honestly, from the photos I’ve seen, I thought it might always be summer there, with perpetual moody sunset light. Snow is like a blanket of magic on the world, making everything more beautiful … as your pictures demonstrate.
It’s usually pouring with rain but that doesn’t lead to very good photos!! We’ve been very lucky so far this year but we’ve probably had enough of the snow now. It should be spring – the lambs are arriving and we need some warmth and sunshine!