See Amid the Winter Snow: Sepia Saturday

This week's  prompt photograph has a snowy theme - with two girls (teenagers?) having fun making a "snowwoman".

In my family, the camera was obviously just for summer use as no winter photographs exist.    I do recollect my mother saying how hard it was to keep  my baby brother warm - he was born a few months before one of the worst winters in modern history - 1947.  Britain was still suffering in the aftermath of war, with food rationing, power cuts, coal shortages - and no central heating in those days.

Here are pictures from the collection of my local heritage group Auld Earlston in the Scottish Borders of winter 1947. 

“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”

 (Carl Reiner) 

  Digging out the train in Earlston Station 

 

The main A68 road through the central Borders, linking Newcastle with Edinburgh

Earlston Square 

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? J. B. Priestley
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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? J. B. Priestley
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But some people enjoy snow

Photographers looking for that perfect winter scene. 

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
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 "The first fall of snow is not only an event, but a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to another kind of world, and if this is not enchantments, then where is it to be found?"  (J.B,Priestley) 

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
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An idyllic snowy picture of Selkirk in the Scottish Borders c.1925.  

from the collection of the Heritage Hub, Hawick

 

 Earlston in the winter of 2011
 
 The River Leader at Earlston, 2011



 Heron spotted on the River Slitrig in Hawick, Scottish Borders, 2009


 I spent a wonderful  year 1965-66  working in Cambridge, Massachusetts near Boston and this photograph brings back memories of the kind of winter I had not experienced before -  here in a picturesque image of  Harvard Chapel.

"Watch the woods fill up with snow" - Robert Frost

Cowdenknowes Woods, Earlston

Curling Enthusiasts - enjoying an outdoor game 

Members of Earlston Curling Club, 1995 

Dogs  - not too sure about the owners enjoying the snow, though!

Children 

"Jan-u-ary brings the snow;

 Makes our feet and fingers glow"  

(Sara Coleridge)  

My granddaughter exploring this new world of snow for the first time. 

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