Ice

Yesterday's snow has given way to sunshine and dripping. It started melting in the evening and the water froze in sheets. I've never seen the streets so dangerous! Our rooves are loaded with snow which is slowly slipping down; you always have to look up before you go in or out, but at the same time, a magical row of icicles- with the evocative name of carámbanos in Spanish has formed under the eaves.

Even more snow

This park bench shows the depth of the snow

Our street after cleaning

Watering can

Untouched

Trees' bad hair day

Nandina berries

It snowed yesterday and again today. Thick, fluffy snow. Loading cars and rooves and branches. The cars are pretty well buried.

Snow, snow and more snow!

I went to Huesca yesterday to do some classes. Knowing I'd be finishing at seven in the evening, I took some essentials just in case the weather was bad and I had to stay. It was, however, a beautiful evening; you could see the stars shining, a bit of wind... I drove home. This morning, before 6.30, we realised that there'd been a BIG snowfall. Well, if it was big at 6.30, by 10 it was tremendous. I rang Huesca to say I wasn't going, Rafa tried to get the car out of the garage and failed to get up the snowy ramp. The other car was parked on the street and he struggled to Sabiñánigo in that, very slowly and carefully. It's three in the afternoon now and I think it's finally stopped snowing. The snow is wet and fluffy. Driving is complicated. Everything looks beautiful. I had to beat my garden plants to take the weight  of snow off them. Soon the 30 cms or so on the rooves will start sliding down and we'll have to look before going in and out of doors.

Breakfast time

Plaza de los Sarrios

Overloaded plum tree

Overloaded letter box!

La Garcipollera

Just up the Aragón valley from Jaca is the village of Castello de Jaca. It suffered terribly in the floods at the end of last year; the river bed is still full of branches and rubble sent downstream by the floodwater which took the side off a house. 

On the first of January we went for a walk from Castiello to the Garcipollera valley. The video shows an old bridge with water cascading down into receiving tanks where people go to swim in the summer. There's a lot of water coming down at the moment.