Snowy Sunday

It is quite exciting finding out what kind of weather Winter will offer out here, I have been thinking back to childhood days in chilly noseburningearnumbinglybeautiful Northumberland and dreaming of snow. Sunday started with a rainy haily morning round the house then we headed out to the mushroom picking place somewhere between As Pontes and the Fragas de Eume hoping high ground would pay off and it really did. The closer we got the more it got like Northumberland in October; oaks and silver birches with golden leaves and a scattering of snow on the ground until the last kilometer when it almost turned into a proper blanket - a really wonderful few hours was had by all.
Callum's first proper snowball

The higher we went the more snow there was


Callum was so impressed he even said "You can have a wonderful Christmas even without presents"....so if it snows a lot more we might get to save a bit of cash this year if we take him at his word.Another few weeks and a few degrees below and there will be ice on the streams and hard crunchy snow this was soft and soggy but great fun all the same.
There were still a lot of mushrooms about I managed to find 7 boletus sheltering under the pines. Callum stuck with eating snow...

And of course we had to make a snowman then Rowan got really freezing so we headed back. The boys worried about the snowman all the way home so we are going back next weekend to see if he is still there.