Depressing

Yesterday was the shortest day of the year. It was also very cold! I didn't venture outside much, but I did try to photograph some fluffed-up sparrows in the next-door neighbour's trees.

As you can see, I didn't manage to catch a sparrow. And that's the last possible picture of any of the trees.

This morning as I headed off to work the neighbours had a wood-chipper parked in their front drive. Tonight when I got home, all the trees were gone.