Weekend readers' pictures: Hibernation

Helen Kittle: “On the island of Lombok in ­Indonesia, women hang their sarongs wherever they stop, and use them to rock their ­babies to sleep with their hands or feet.”
Photograph: Helen Kittle

Ange Andrassy: “Snails taking refuge in a tree to escape the winter” Photograph: Ange Andrassy

Thomas Balogh: “The cat will only come out for food and cuddles” Photograph: Thomas Balogh

Joe Navin: “Harriet keeps out the cold at Goodison Park” Photograph: Joe Navin

Simon Maddison: "The American countryside is littered with vehicles their owners put into hibernation. Will they ever move again? This one in Washington State caught my eye" Photograph: Simon Maddison

Jim Grady: "Taken at my local garden centre. All the summer flowering plants were coated in a layer of snow, just biding their time" Photograph: Jim Grady

Ed Farrell: "In Xian, China, the trees are covered as if hibernating from the harsh winter" Photograph: Ed Farrell

Spyros Chatzigiannis: "The last rays of autumn sunshine hit these jolly little turtles chilling out on a tiny wooden island made of a floating tree branch at the pond in Clissold park" Photograph: Spyros Chatzigiannis

Tom Osman: "This was taken in the depths of winter and the scene very much reminded me of Mole End or Mr. Badger's house in the Wild Wood" Photograph: Tom Osman