SNOWY FUN ON SEPIA SATURDAY

This week;'Sepia Saturday prompt image shows a snowy scene  with  swings in an empty playground - the theme - playing in the snow.   I have no early childhood photographs in the snow - my family only seemed to bring the camera out  in summer, but here are other images of people enjoying themselves in snowy times. 

 Daughter playing  with our dog Casmir, out on the hioll behind our home in Hawick in the  Scottish Borders. 

  

Members of Earlston  Curling Club enjoying  a game outdoors on "real ice". Photograph courtesy of my local heritage group Auld Earlston.  

This is the oldest snow picture in my collection and brings back memories of my father.  This photograph was taken in the wartime winter of 1944 in Luxembourg.  Dad served in the RAF working in codes and cyphers and  at this time was attached to the US 12th Army Group commanded by  General Bradley.  Whilst stationed in Luxembourg, Dad became friendly with a local  family.   Here he is (on the left)  with Mr. Batten out for a walk with his little daughter.  I think he was able to enjoy a taste of family life amidst the realities of war. Dad remained in contact with the Batten family for many years.    I found   this photograph in Dad's album. 

More enjoyment on  Winter Walks 

 

Enjoying a winter walk with friends, 1966.   I am wearing my favourite fur hood, made,  fashionable after the film of Dr. 

 

With my daughter, 1975.

 

Husband also adding a splash of colour as we set out on a woodland winter walk near our home.  

Snow in Summer - this  was taken June 1997  as we stood on the Stubai Glacier  near Innsbruck , Austria - our favourite country for our summer holiday. 

But we can enjoy the beauty of snow.  When snow  first falls, it  can  be a wonderful magical experience transforming the landscape. 

 

 

Trees on the main A68 road which links the Scottish Borders with Edinburgh.

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

 

12th century ruined Melrowse Abbey, 6 miles from my home.

 

 Trees on the old railway line through Earlston. 
 

The Leader Water at Earlston. 

And two images which  featured quite recently on my blog, but they fit the theme so well, I am repeating them here.

 

 

 

 Playing at snow angels - not my idea of fun! 

 

 
 

 2009 and my granddaughter exploring this new world of snow for the first time.

  

But spring and  summer fun were  not toofar ahead  - and she was soon back enjoying the swings.

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