For the first time since this project began, I was unable to make a post yesterday. Light freezing rain began Tuesday night and continued throughout the day on Wednesday, changing to sleet and back to rain several times before ending as snow. Casualties included my electricity (out for 30 hours), one pine tree in the backyard, and three cedars in the backyard. (Ice falling on cedars is far worse than snow falling on cedars, in my experience). One snapped two-thirds of the way to the top, and the uppermost branches are currently resting on my roof.
I ventured out early in the day. Beginning a year-long project, I expected I might have a day or two when I would have to be out on the road closer to a thunderstorm than I would like. But I never anticipated that I would be feeling a bit scared during a winter storm. But the quarter-inch or so of ice covering the trees made even my Piney Woods Church Road stroll a bit of an adventure. I heard a couple of limbs fall, and pine branches littered the ground. But nothing fell close to me during my walk, fortunately. It was sleeting while I took all my photographs; icy pellets kept landing on the camera lens, adding to the challenge.
In this photo I am looking southeast, beyond Piney Woods Church Road in the foreground to Rico Road in the background.
