Ice in the Air

The weather is due to turn this weekend, to be more like February, but for now it is a chilly five degrees.   The furnace is hardly warming the house before it comes on again.  Someone once mentioned to me that we have a lot of fluctuations in our weather.  It would seem so.  We can have snow in May and warm days in January.  But yesterday, yesterday it was snow and rime ice.

After our lessons, I drove us up to the Snail Place, just to look.  It was around 15° F then, with a little breeze.  The branches were like lace, just the way I love for them to look.  It is hard to remember the steamy green of Summer on days like these.

The sun was hitting the trees and sending the rime ice down like snow. You can see it here on the ground, with my ever-present wool shoes.  It was squeaky and powdery, both the ice and snow, not the soggy kind that makes a person wet and cold quickly. 

Today, after lunch, we'll bundle up and head to Raccoon Branch to see what accumulated in the woods.  Schools are still closed today, probably because of the cold and the slight melting that happened yesterday.  Here, of course, we keep on going and we have recess in the snow.  I prefer to take Sun Days, when the Spring weather is simply too lovely to be stuck indoors and the children are giddy with excitement.