Blackthorn WinterWild West Yorkshire nature diary, Friday 16th April 1999IT IS ALMOST A REGULAR EVENT; on the 14th of April last year we had two or three inches of snow. It started at 3 in the afternoon and continued through the night. The next day there was snow on the Gorse blossom and the Oilseed Rape in the fields had been flattened. Today's snow is wet stuff which doesn't settle, amounting to an inch depth at most. It echoes the sprinkling of snow-like blossom on the Blackthorn. Richard Bell, |