The Ice Storm

This day was crazy.  I've never seen an ice strom before and when we woke up this morning there was a thick layer of ice on everything.  The power lines had a layer as thick as these plants.  The weight of the ice eventually caused some of our tree branches to break off and when it started to melt the ice made huge crashing noises as it fell onto our roof and yard.  Despite how crazy dangerous it was it was really quite beautiful.  It was so still that morning and everything was shimmering.  Our front yard looked like an ice rink (not that we tried it out) and our care was also covered in about 1/4 inch layer of ice.

These flowers were some of the strangest of what I saw.  I'm not sure what kind they were but they looked almost like a daisy and the ice balled up on the end of them until there was more ice there than flower.  It's pretty amazing that such a phenomenon exists. 

There was one snap dragon plant (yes I still have snap dragons in January, crazy, I know) that had some blossoms on it and it looked so strange cased in ice.

I guess the lesson in this one is to enjoy the beauty even in the craziest of circumstances.  As a cause of the ice storm over 200,000 people lost power and some were out for as long as five days.  Many are still cleaning up fallen trees and branches from their property and Matt said the wood recycling place had a long line when he went on Saturday.  Me, I'm just glad to have power again and am appreciating it a little more.