ABC Wednesday: I is for Ice

Ice storms can be very beautiful although it's irritating when they damage trees and power lines.

The inferior quality of the first two photographs in this post can be blamed on my first cheap digital camera.

Any inferiority in the rest of the photographs has to be blamed on the photographer since they were taken after I got a better digital camera.

In the winter I try to provide the birds with fresh water. I end up with ice blocks on my deck from the frozen water I empty out.

The birds let me know when they are ready for more water because their bird baths are iced over. Sometimes the ice forms in interesting ways.

I don't think I'd ever seen an upright icicle until I spotted this one last winter.

The creek which feeds into Shelley Lake had ice in early January.

The lake also had ice over most of it although much of it was thin ice so not suitable for ice skating.

The neighborhood children did get to go sledding last winter when ice formed on top of the snow.

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