Showing posts with label Waterloo winter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Waterloo winter. Show all posts

21 Dec 2010

MY WORLD - White winter


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My world is white and cold ! I can't remember that we had so much snow since I was a young girl in 1963 ! But apparently we had a similar winter also in 1987, ever since, no snow or just a little. I even digged out a K-way wintersport jacket I had bought in the 80th ! It looked new, because once I had bought it the winters were never cold enough to wear it.

But now we are really spoiled !



It started snowing on Saturday afternoon, and this is our entrance



the next morning looking out of my window I saw the car sitting deeply in the snow



the street and roofs were white



This tree always looks very beautiful when it snows



A view over our garden

On Monday the snow had stopped and the sun shined over this white world and made it
really beautiful.



our neigbor's house just in front



and our house in the sunshine



This was the view I had from our living room on Monday morning



icicles hanging from the roof



Magpies discussing in the tree



No snow blowers in our street, nobody is equipped for such a weather



but it looks beautiful when you don't have to go somewhere



there must have been someone who had missed the roundabout



and my little Christmas decoration is hidden in the snow.

Schools are closed, no mail, and we are asked to stay home if it is not really necessary to go out. Brussels airport is closed and thousands of people are stuck and have to spend the night in the airport.

Only the children are happy, they enjoy the school free day and have fun in the snow !



To all of you !

20 Jan 2009

MY WORLD - The Waterloo winterly battlefield



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Living in this historical place where Napoleon lost his battle, I wanted to see how the Lion looks like when it has snowed (which doesn't happen very often in Belgium)

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The lion hill in white

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too cold for a picnic

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views over the battle fields

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in our street it's getting dirty,

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the snow melts. We just had one week of snow.