2.09.2010

icecubicles

We are still digging out from the recent snowstorm. The schools are still closed, and the federal government offices in the DC area were closed again today. More snow is on the way tonight...as much as eighteen inches according to some forecasts.

Our neighborhood has been shrouded in white for more than four days. In order to combat cabin fever and the snow glare delirium, we take walks and search for odd patterns created by the cycles of melting and freezing.


This cargo net suspended from a chain link backstop has been cradling a mass of flakes, but upon closer inspection the impromptu hammock is acting more like a sieve, patiently extruding long cubes of frozen snow...nature's own play dough wonderland.

 

  

 

5 comments:

amalia said...

It's sunny and 70 degrees here baby!!!!!!!!!!

(Ken) said...

It's not soooo bad here...I'm thinking of ordering a gallon each of sirop de tamarindo y sirop de frambuesa, and I am going to make the world's largest piragua!
;)
I'll save you some.

Motownrunner said...

these pictures are so great!!! great lines!! are you sending these to the bbc?

i like the idea, piraguero.

(Ken) said...

If I could only write an app for the iphone so that you can "raspar hielo"and then a piragua appears on your screen...hmm there's a thought.

I really like these pictures too, but I am forcing myself to take a break from submitting to the BBC. I'm working on a project of photographs on patterns and textures. I'd like to submit it somewhere as a series of 8 to 12 pics.

amalia said...

oooohh that sounds cool! post a copy when you finish it!!!