Icicles
This has been the most beautiful January that I can remember. (Northeast Ohio weather is so fickle. Our beautiful snowfalls are usually followed by a "warm front" just a few days later that either melts it all away or brings rain which also melts it leaving nasty brown puddles everywhere.) So I am really enjoying this. After all, if it's going to be winter, I want it to be snowy white--all the time.
Who knows how long this particular cold stretch will last. We've had a couple of sunny afternoons, but the temperatures have barely made it into the 20's, so we are still covered in beautiful snow.
This combination of bright, sunny afternoons and frigid temps is the perfect recipe for one of my favorite phenomenons-the formation of icicles. I've noticed some spectacular ones over the past few days, usually while I'm on a very busy stretch of road with traffic behind me. I've been carrying the little Canon with me religiously the past few days, but it doesn't do any good if you can't stop to use it!
Yesterday, Ethan and I took off after preschool to find some icicles off the main roads so I could stop and photograph. I got a few shots. No formations that were as exciting as I had been seeing along the busy road. But this morning, I noticed the most amazing curtain of icicles that ran the entire length of a run-down gas station. After I dropped him off at pre-school, I ran home to get the "good" camera. Somehow, I don't think these photos do the scene justice, but I'm glad I took them.
Who knows how long this particular cold stretch will last. We've had a couple of sunny afternoons, but the temperatures have barely made it into the 20's, so we are still covered in beautiful snow.
This combination of bright, sunny afternoons and frigid temps is the perfect recipe for one of my favorite phenomenons-the formation of icicles. I've noticed some spectacular ones over the past few days, usually while I'm on a very busy stretch of road with traffic behind me. I've been carrying the little Canon with me religiously the past few days, but it doesn't do any good if you can't stop to use it!
Yesterday, Ethan and I took off after preschool to find some icicles off the main roads so I could stop and photograph. I got a few shots. No formations that were as exciting as I had been seeing along the busy road. But this morning, I noticed the most amazing curtain of icicles that ran the entire length of a run-down gas station. After I dropped him off at pre-school, I ran home to get the "good" camera. Somehow, I don't think these photos do the scene justice, but I'm glad I took them.
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