Hello Winter

 Looking back in my photo archives, I see that last year too, we had the first snowfall around the same time in November. 

Photo from Nov 22, 2024

Today (Nov 21, 2025) was also a sunny winter day here, with a thin layer of white on the ground, and a few degrees below 0'C - neither slushy nor particularly icy. As the weather will probably turn more unreliable again tomorrow (a mix of rain and snow to be expected) I decided to take advantage of the here and now. So after lunch I donned my winter boots and coat etc again, and went out for my usual Friday "recycling walk" - and from the recycling bins, back a different way, including a stop at the small corner shop where I sometimes buy some extra fruit & vegs between my regular home deliveries from the supermarket. (Bananas and a cucumber on my list today.) A couple of months ago, hardly worth mentioning... But today, besides being my first proper walk this season with snow on the ground, it was also the first time since my unfortunate fall back in early October that I felt up for combining two errands on the same walk. I was out for about 45 minutes, and even if in total it was still a shorter distance than 1 km, it felt like progress.

No photos from today's walk, as I was busy enough just watching my steps, and holding a walking pole in one hand and a bag in the other... But later, back home, I took this "skywatch" sunset photo from my balcony:

Skywatch Friday