Icy Day

Awoke to freezing rain that coated the driveway with at least a 1/2" of ice by 7am so wisely stayed in.  After all, am good with entertaining myself.  Then the power went out around 8:30am.  At 10am I decided to crank up the wood stove that I use only when the power goes out -- had to chip the wood pile out from under snow and ice (note to self:  need different solution) and lug in.  Then I kept happy with my stack of library books.  Throughout the day, I kept hearing the crack of tree branches breaking and kept going to the windows to see where the sound was coming from.  My poor shrubs and thin trees are bent double from the coating of ice but no breakage yet.  Will have to check them out after the thaw.  And now it is snowing.  At least now I have power -- after 7 hours.

Still it is very pretty as you can see.

about 10:30am

a closer look at the ice on branches

icicles on eaves; trees and shrubs with ice on snow-covered branches