Ice

The creek ice is melting away.   We've never seen it so thick as we have this year.   Click these pics to blow them up big enough to really see how beautiful it is.

This ice looked like pillows from Christmas until this week.  

This section has wiggly squiggly layers and was our favorite as far as weird ice goes this year.

We loved the swoops and icicles in this section.

Icicles under every rock along the creek.  

They're lovely, but I'll be glad to see them leave.

Waterfall

Not too far up our creek is a waterfall that drops off the hill into the creek.  It is spectacular this year.  

I braved the brambles and barbed wire and iced over creek to go get these pics.   I'm so glad I did because it's even more spectacular when you're up-close and personal.

Click these pics to blow them up so you can really appreciate how wonderful all this ice is.
 
Ice sheets and stalactites - but behind them in the cliff face are beautiful columns of ice.

No words.   Blow it up and just wander around in the pic for a while.  

At the top of the waterfall is a large piece of shale overhanging the fall.   The roots of the tree above have anchored it in.   The water is wearing away the rock layers around that shale.  Someday that tree will come down and take a whole lot of rock face with it.

Winter's Teeth

These icicles show up where the little springs drip constantly into one of our creeks.  As soon as it gets cold, they show their teeth.   This winter has been particularly biting.