What a difference a week makes...

Rushton Hall looked superb in it's wintery glory in the snow last week (see previous post), and it looked equally superb yesterday with all the snow gone. It really stood out against another glorious blue sky.

Here's an image of the South Terrace, taken from almost the same spot as last week's image with the snow:

And down towards the lake there were the first scatterings of snowdrops in the foreground;