Jan 2025 Chasing snow @ Summit of Ladybower

 Snow under -5 degrees without wind. Climbing up and down to the summits. It was heavy pressure of hiking up with waist pains. Finally I couldn’t go back to my car and rested for an hour…

Jan 2025 Snow

 Snow at home

Jan 2025 Chatsworth House

Chatsworth House is built on sloping ground, lower on the north and west sides than on the south and east sides. The original Tudor mansion was built in the 1560s by Bess of Hardwick in a quadrangle layout, about 170 feet (50 m) from north to south and 190 feet (60 m) from east to west, with a large central courtyard. 

The main entrance was on the west front, which was embellished with four towers or turrets, and the great hall in the medieval tradition was on the east side of the courtyard, where the Painted Hall remains the focus of the house to this day.