Icey Mess

It seems like every winter in Georgia we have a cold weather adventure.  Last year school was out for a week with snowy, icy frozen roads.  This year is no exception...the cold hit on Monday night and freezing rain covered everything.  I took this picture Monday evening as the icicles started forming on the trees.  All you snow people out there laugh and mock us for our intolerance to cold weather conditions but this ice stuff is serious business!  All schools were shut down Tuesday and the kids cheered with the extra day off.  When the ice covers the trees the branches get super heavy and snap, sometimes landing on power lines.  So many people were without power, some for over 24 hours.  When it's 20 degrees outside that gets pretty cold in your house over a long period of time.  We were fortunate to not have our power out for very long, just a couple flickers in the evening and then one half hour time period around 3:00 am.  We did have a few of our decorative trees uproot and tip over in the back yard but nothing too major for us.

 The trees in our side yard were totally covered with ice.  It was actually quite spectacular.  When the sun shined on the branches they just glistened.  I looked out the kitchen window once and the sun was hitting the ice on the trees just right that little rainbows were bouncing off the icy branches.  It was an incredible sight.  I tried taking pictures of the moment but the camera just didn't catch the rainbow effect.

 We definitely couldn't open the gate!