Continuing on with the winter weather theme, since we're supposed to get 4–8" snow tomorrow evening, here's a picture I took in my front yard after the last big weather event, the ice storm that took out our electricity for over 4 days:

icicles on oak leaves f/1.9, ev 0, 1/198s, ISO 44, PP6, 23feb23:08:49:36; scaled

I planted this oak sapling 20 years ago, when we moved here, because we had immediately to remove 3 of the 6 maples that came with the house (& were likely planted when it was built; the trees and the house are roughly the same vintage, at least according to the arborist I consulted). Ironically enough, the day we moved the bulk of our possessions was right after the last big ice storm^[1] : the sun absolutely glittered on the trees, and it was beautiful.^[2]

This time, unfortunately, it was grey and cloudy, but that did make photographing the effects easier.

same image, in B&W. lots of image editing to soften the contrast of the trunk in the background.

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