Posted by Owen Roberts on December 29, 2010 at 13:40:49 user OwenRoberts.
In Reply to: Re: Winter Holiday Again posted by Roger Wardale on December 29, 2010 at 12:06:43:
Thank you for posting this lovely piece of descriptive prose, Roger.
What Palmer is describing is an early onset winter, with the oak leaves still on the trees.
In normal years most oak leaves have usually fallen by early December, but if winter comes early the leaves actually freeze to the tree.
This has happened this year with a 300+ year old oak in my other garden.
Most of the text still survived in the 1939 Penguin guide, but without Alfred Heaton Cooper’s lovely coloured illustrations.