As a treat, Bert took me out with my trusty little Fujifilm FinePix S4400 bridge camera. Now, I am going to be bold and post my pictures as they came out. No saturation fiddling, no cropping, no anything. Just raw off the memory card.
When we left the house it had just started to snow, and quite a squall it was
It had been snowing on and off all day, but hadn’t stuck so we took the chance and went out to see what we could find. All the pictures are taken in the Isle of Man, more specifically the North, Ramsey to start with and ending up at Guthrie’s Memorial. We were quite hopeful for a few decent snaps, so Bert saddled up too with his Cannon DSLR.
Houston, we have a problem – no way is my wheelchair going to go up there. Such a shame as there was some gorgeous icicles up there. Never mind, there was plenty of gorgeous stuff to photograph as it was.
The beauty in nature never ceases to take my breath away.
Bert was busy climbing up the hillside like a mountain goat getting some fantastic pictures as we have had quite a cold snap of all the icicles that had formed on the trees, and I was really looking forwards to seeing them, when he sprang the most romantic (and he would kill me for saying that!) gesture on me. Let me show you:-
He brought the icicle encrusted boughs that he found lying on the ground to me! I was absolutely blown away by the gesture, and may have leaked a couple of very happy tears.
I was so enthralled by what he had done, I had failed to noticed that it had stopped snowing, which brought different light to photograph in.
clear skies with new shadows 
So, we thought we would move up the Mountain Road to Guthrie’s Memorial to take some more photographs, the views were again, breathtaking, but on a different level…
With my back to the Irish Sea, I got up close and personal with some icicles of my very own. I took a lot more, but these are my favourite. I turned round to my favourite sight in the world. It doesn’t matter if I have only been to our main town Douglas, or have been on a 2 week holiday, this is the sight that takes my breath away every time I see it:-
and so does this one too…….. 
Now this is just a small selection of my afternoon out that started off with a heavy snow squall and ended up with these final pictures. And all of it done in about three quarters of an hour too. I had a fantastic time, and I hope you enjoy my little offering today. Just photos, and not very good ones at that, but ones that I love and I hope you have too. If it wasn’t for the wheelchair, I could have got such different ones, but it is sometimes nice to be able to show you life from my perspective.
Sarah
wheelynotwhatiwanted 
Ok, still learning, will get the photos straight in my next photography post!
Some great stuff and the joy you have in taking these shots comes through. I think you’ve set the bar high for starters. Love the icicles.
Thank you very much, I had a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon. I loved the first set of icicles too, especially as I wouldn’t have got to them without help. The second set were an added bonus as with the change of weather, we had gone up to the Memorial with the single purpose of getting the shots of the tip of the Island, they were a total bonus. I took 77 in total, but chose these as my favourite.