Discovering Holiday Joy: Nature’s Ice Needles

What I saw last week is in my top ten list of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. It was a few days after my last foggy post, when we had almost three and a half inches of rain. The temperature had dropped to highs below freezing over the next several days, with lows in the teens. Look at what I discovered in the ground!

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Experiencing Love in Everyday Moments

I drove to have coffee with a friend a few days ago. Snow was still on the ground from several days before, but this day was warm and drizzly. I passed through a few thick patches of fog on my way through the hills. I was struck by all the phases of water I was seeing at the same time through the windshield: solid snow banks and icicles clinging to the side of rocky cliffs, banks of fog barely pierced by my headlights, and wet drizzle pelting the windows.

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