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Icy white Carpathian January

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Forget frost – this is the real Transylvanian, Carpathian, Central European start to the New Year… Hard winter, knee deep powder, frozen pipes, icy fingers, cats by the fire, sun making diamond dust of the snow… Happy New Frozen Year!

If there’s wind as well as snow, the drifts can climb at least halfway up the kitchen door…
February garden
Mr Jack Frost and his rime needles

Shot across the bows

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We’ve been warned! Yesterday we had our first taste of snow – wet and transient at village level, it left a dusting of powder on the higher forest slopes.

Magura, autumn colours, first snow, Transylvania

The first dusting of snow yesterday, above the first turning leaves

This morning, there was a proper covering of white ice on the mountain ridge and its rocky sides – hidden by cloud yesterday – but by the afternoon a warm sun had melted most of the snow. Bucegi was better covered, but still, not quite winter. But it’s coming!

Piatra Craiului this afternoon
Bucegi with its first autumn snow. But the village meadows are green enough for Spring.