Winter is beautiful

[winter]

We've had over a month of full-on, beautiful snow this year, more than usual - it's more common to have sleet or hard clumps of grey ice littering the streets, depending on whether it's too warm or too cold for fluffy snow. I took shameless advantage of it with my camera.

The first batch of photos is from Kiermusy again, the pine forest near the village.








And these are from a recent walk in the Lasek Bielanski park.

Comments

[artaxastra.livejournal.com]

Oh gorgeous! I like the snowy mallards too. Duck, duck, duck.

Your fir trees are a different shape. It's very strange. We have lots of fir trees too, but it must be a different species. These are more skinny.

[winter]

These aren't firs, they're pines :) Take a look at the full-size photos - they're laden with snow, which bends the branches down and gives them a fir-like shape. Firs are only to be found in the very south of Poland, mostly in the mountains.

[artaxastra.livejournal.com]

AH! That's what's so strange. I'm used to the pines, but they're further south than here, where there's rarely snow.

[winter]

In Europe the entire northern forests, from Poland to Siberia, are pine and spruce. Firs are southern trees over here :)