Spring?

I apologize for a bit of an absence, but there is not much that goes on in my lonesome household. I, myself, have things to do to somewhat keep busy, but for the most part, my time alone is always fairly uneventful and the events that do occur are not exactly document worthy. I'm positive that no one really wants to hear of my grocery store adventures. I don't even really like grocery shopping by myself, so unless it were particularly entertaining in some way, it wouldn't be a chronicle I would tell.

I will, however, speak on a north country first for me - freezing rain! While the rest of the country celebrates the return of warm weather and green foliage, I frown at the continuation my never ending winter.

You would think that after experiencing just one winter here, I would have already paid my dues with this kind of weather. That assumption would be incorrect, though! Alas, I was a freezing rain virgin up until a few days ago. I've had snow in the middle of April (a horrible event in and of itself that I would hope I did not have to repeat...but, I did), 70 degree weather in April (something that everyone else would think is normal, but it is very NOT normal for here), and ice on the road, but never freezing rain.

In all truthfulness, it really wasn't that different than rain. Granted, I spent the whole experience inside, and when I drove, the ice had all melted away toward the end of the day as it gradually heated up. I'm sure others have had more traumatic experiences with it than I did. It was a neat thing to see, though. Up until that point, I had never seen anything completely encapsulated in a layer of thin, clear ice. And everything was covered like so. I thought it was so fascinating. You can see small buds on the trees that are getting ready to open, getting ready to begin their life, and yet they're coated in this smooth, clear, cold layer of ice. It's two completely opposing ideas, but they're meshed together.

Of course, I saw this as an opportunity to use my camera. Unfortunately, the ice was already beginning to melt and drip off of everything by the time I got out. It rained all day, and fairly hard, so I had to wait until it let up enough to not ruin our camera. Regardless, it still is a sight to see, especially if you've never witnessed anything of this nature, and in the long run, I'll be glad that I have something to look back on to remember this "first".