An appropriate title for the blog and one sure to get Bowie fans in a lather 😉 Just a few shots of the views around here following last night's blizzard. The snow eventually stopped at just before 4.00am having deposited up to 6 inches of snow. Amazingly most of the roads were cleared fairly quickly, but not all of them; and not mine (which is still more skating rink than road surface). These shots were taken in the garden and then on my walk to recover my car from where I'd abandoned it last night. 
Garden
View from garden
Local streets
Abandoned bus (it runs on vegetable oil)
Abandoned cars
I'd left my car a couple of hundred yards north of these, before the downhill section! This is the view just beyond where I'd parked.
The road to work was remarkably clear given the extent of last night's snow. I passed many abandoned cars strewn across the road on the way, all of which had been cleared by this evening. Thankfully there's a slow thaw continuing through tonight, but if the temperature drops later conditions could be tricky in the morning. Locally, it is still very icy.
'What no wildlife?' Well no photos apart from these fox tracks left in the garden.
And of course the inevitable video sequence. The first two edits show one of the foxes recovering an egg buried in the snow.
Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 24-105 F4L IS USM lens.
derWandersmann
24 Jan 2013A nice collection, Words.
A couple of questions:
1) Was the egg raw or hardboiled?
2) When you say the bus is powered by vegetable oil, are you saying that it's a diesel? And is that why it's abandoned (diesels don't do well in the cold because the fuel congeals)?
Words
24 Jan 2013dW, in answer to the question… 1) the egg was raw (I'm not going to cook for them as well!).
2) The bus does indeed run on bio-diesel produced from waste vegetable oil collected from restaurants (see more about the Big Lemon vegetable oil here, but it was the ice that stopped it. The Big Lemon is a small bus company, but our main buses which run on conventional fuels had just as many problems. The snow was 'unexpected' and they hadn't gritted the roads, so everything stopped (or didn't). The next stage on this bus's route was a steep upward incline. I'm not surprised it gave up. 4x4s have been known to struggle.
gdare
25 Jan 2013Glad the foxes are ok. And not hungry :happy:
Wulpen
25 Jan 2013Very nice … to see snow lovely Pict
Words
25 Jan 2013Darko, the foxes seem to enjoy the snow… so many nice things buried underneath it 😉
Words
25 Jan 2013Erwin, thanks!
SittingFox
26 Jan 2013Well, I have wondered on many recent rainy days what would happen if it were cold enough to be snow. It'd probably be as high as the North Downs if it had been this cold all winter!
Words
27 Jan 2013Adele, I shudder to think what it could have been like. They had an elderly farmer on TV a couple of nights ago talking about one year when he recalled 16 feet of snow. I think that may have been in Yorkshire, but clearly a lot worse than anything we've had.