As you can tell by this, the fifth in my series (a series that has lots of legs), I’m totally enthralled by what the Ice Storm did to transform the landscape and all that is in it. From the branches with which I started, to a stem of milk weed, to the branch of a fir tree, to the berries of an ornamental shrub, the ice wrapped a crystal permanence upon all that it touched. And if you ever wanted to take a picture of a droplet of water up close but couldn’t catch it, this droplet will remain until the warm weather returns ….
All text and images © Dale Schierbeck, 2015
Ice storms leave behind an ethereal, dangerous beauty.
Yes they do. With climate change, Ottawa seems to get 2-3 a year now. They can be very unnerving at their worst with threats of powerloss, intraversable avenues, and destruction. But when you get just a ‘bit’ they are amazing.