We have this spiky looking bush thing at the end of the garden, near the pond. It has great muted reds and greens and looked interesting when it had some snow on it the other day.

Don’t use an impact driver on or near plaster dating back to the early 1900’s.
It doesn’t look pretty afterwards.

It’s been pretty cold out today, so I decided to go into the garden to see if there were any photos to be had. There’s been a lot of ice and frost recently and today the pond had a nice iced up section, right next to the waterfall. It was in the shade, so I used a flash to shoot through the ice and bring out the crispness of it a little. I’ll post some more photos over the next few days.

This was taken about 2am the other day.
-3 is fairly cold for around here. Apparently at about 8am it was even colder at -6!

I was helping out put some new loft insulation into my gran’s bungalow this morning and this is the sight we saw when we opened one of the hatches.

All I can say is that I’m glad it was just above 0 degrees! Any warm weather would have meant it was an active nest. That thing must have held thousands of wasps!