Icing

Got some ice last night.

Not a whole lot different then other times we've gotten ice.

Like usual, it weighs down the bamboo across our driveway.

And like other times, I had to go out and "relieve" the bamboo (i.e. whack it with a broom) of it's weight.

Though this time I was a little more careful and first took some pictures.

The above photo is of a piece of ice the shape and contour of a leaf that has slipped to the bottom of the leaf from which it was formed. Unfortunately my picture taking really doesn't do it justice.

Again, the photo doesn't quite capture how I saw it, but everything was bending down from the center of the grove. The area that's usually the most dense and impenetrable was completely open and exposed.

None of this happens when it snows - no matter how much. It's mostly an effect of heavy rain and/or ice, which we tend to get a lot more of.

- b