The freezing rain today created some rather slippery surfaces and coated a lot of thing outside like these red colored branches.
Ice Coated Branches
Picture of the Day for January 15, 2023
With the temperature finally above freezing again, the ice was dropping off the tree limbs so they are no longer sparkling in the sunlight like earlier in the week.
Icy Limbs
Picture of the Day for March 31, 2022
Last year at this time of year, my pond was filled with ducks and geese. But the two pair of geese and my lone duck have vanished for days since the pond has frozen over solid again so no open water. And the snow today created a white layer on the surface. Maybe tomorrow, if the sun comes out, it will melt a hole back in the ice again.
Waiting to Thaw
Picture of the Day for March 30, 2022
Morning revealed an icy coating on most of the surfaces outside, as even the individual pine needles were coated in ice.
Icy Needles
Picture of the Day for March 5, 2022
The ditch magnets were busy pulling cars off the road this morning. Actually it was the layer of ice on the road that caused the vehicles to end up in the ditches. Crawling around in this slippery ice coated tunnel is definitely more of a fun adventure than slipping off the roadway in a car.
Icy Tunnel Adventure
Picture of the Day for March 3, 2022
My poor shrub was under the roof line yesterday when the snow was melting and encased the plant in ice. And today it didn’t get above freezing to melt the ice so it may remain frozen for a few more days.
Encased in Ice
Picture of the Day for January 29, 2022
With the recent winds blowing the ice away from shore, the sunrise pink color was able to reflect off the water this morning on the south shore of Lake Superior.
Pink Sunrise Reflection
Picture of the Day for January 10, 2022
On Saturday, 34 fisherman were stranded on a piece of ice that cracked and separated away from the rest ice near shore. They had to be rescued from the floating ice as it floating farther out into Lake Michigan. I wouldn’t be fishing on the ice since the ice changes frequently on big bodies of water as this image from Lake Superior was a solid sheet one minute, fractured a while later and after a few more hours, the ice floated out of view.
Lake Superior Floating Ice
Picture of the Day for January 1, 2022
The New Year started out with some sunshine, but it was a cold day as the temperature never climbed above zero and the wind made it feel like -25. And tonight will be even colder.
Frigid Year Start
Picture of the Day for December 30, 2021
The few hours of morning sunshine still wasn’t enough to melt the ice off the tree limbs and the ice probably will stay for several more days as the frigid air remains.
Still Icy Limbs
