Walking on Thin Ice

“If you're walking on thin ice, you might was well dance”


While walking and riding around the area, ice can be found everywhere. Forty-four of the last 62 days have been below normal so nobody is surprised by that.  And since you have to deal with it you might as well enjoy it.  That is not hard when you stop to admire the beauty of ice.

The ice crystals that form on the brush and trees.  When the sun hits them the yard and trees look like there are diamonds everywhere. 

...the ice forming on the river....

...the shape of some icicles.  This one looks like a snow cone hanging....

When he drips down he is starting to form ice stalagmites...

I should have taken the picture from the side so you could see the height, instead he looks like he is laying down.

But moving on to a wells overflow making ice sculptures....

And the force of water in either it's liquid or frozen form is amazing.  Here it has frozen in the gutters and pushed the gutters away from the building.  There are icicles on both sides of the gutter.  I am sure it will lead to interior damage if it hasn't already. 

There is also the force of it to the land.  Each year we have a "falling rock zone" from the water freezing between the layers of rock, separating the stone and then when it thaws the stone rolls down into the roads.

Oddly enough my knitting is like that ice.  A "force" if you will makes me want to knit certain things at certain times.  I can not concentrate on another project until I do what needs to be done.  Recently it has been hats.  Plain boring knitting, ear flaps (two but #2 daughter claimed one), cupcake and a Mohawk.

I have another cupcake on the needles which I will finish today and then I think that faze will be over.  I feel the urge toward something more challenging like lace....and in wool.  While the recent knitting has consumed some of the stash of acrylic I want to feel wool running between my fingers.  I also want a pair of mittens so maybe I will combine the two.  That sounds like a trip to Ravelry.  And the search is on!