Let it Snow

Dearleap – Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK. ID JB1_1104

First Snow of Winter

Christmas is never over, unless you want it to be.  And nothing keeps Christmas going better than some snow.

Dearleap – Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK. ID JB1_1107

I was waking the rest of the house up at half passed six again; heading up the hill to see catch the sunrise.  A special sunrise because the weather forecast had promised snow.

Winter Sunrise at Lynchcombe – From Cooks Fields, Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK. ID JB1_1158H

The Lynchcombe sycamores providing the foreground to a view across the Somerset Levels to Glastonbury Tor.

Winter Sunrise at Lynchcombe – From Cooks Fields, Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK. ID JB1_1227H

It was a time of two worlds: the cold snow world up in the Mendip Hills; and the warm green world of the Somerset Levels.

Towards Brent Knoll – From Cooks Fields, Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK. JB1_1272H

The low sun stretches across the fields below.

Two Worlds – Somerset Levels from the Mendip Hills, Overlooking Lynchcombe, Somerset, UK. ID JB1_1217H

The village of Westbury-sub-Mendip was about to wake up.

Westbury-sub-Mendip – From Cooks Fields, Mendip Hills, Somerset, UK. ID JB1_1294

North Hill

Away from the green of The levels the Mendips were covered in snow.  A black and white world.

North Hill – Mendips, Somerset, UK. ID JB1_1532

The outline of the nine barrows providing the only break to the white.

North Hill – Mendips, Somerset, UK. ID JB1_1428