Showing posts with label ice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ice. Show all posts

Thursday, January 29, 2009

The suckiness of ICE

So we are beginning to dig out of Ohio's Big Winter Storm.
Yesterday, after 3 to 5 inches of snow fell onto the INCH of ice and an older, 5 inch layer of snow, the sun came out. Like a cruel joke.
The birds were rolling in, with frantic darting of their eyes. Their natural food sources were buried. Every bird who landed in the crab apple tree slide down a few inches before being able to grasp the sucky ice-covered branch.


Shall we look at some ice?


Here we have an icy white-throated sparrow:
Icy White throated sparrow




And next is an icy white-breasted nuthatch:
Icy nuthatch


And an icy mockingbird. With ICE on his FACE!
Icy mockingbird


This cardinal doesn't look icy, but he was.
Close up icy cardinal


A day isn't complete without an icy robin butt:
Icy robin butt


Sure, the ice made the usual into pretty candy form,
Macro icy crabapple

and popsicles,
Icy perch


...and plain forms into works of art:
Icy branches

But in the end, it still sucks.