Springless Spring

We want for a long, bracing walk today--bracing because the wind, against us both going and coming, was quite sharp. This is the view out the study window:

Snow is still the dominant feature of the landscape. We are a week into the Carbon Tax era, and six months into winter: first snowfall was on 23 Oct., so if this holds out for two more weeks--and we are getting an additional 15cm tomorrow--it will be a demi-year of the white stuff.