We had a terrible ice storm last night and lost electricity about midnight. The sound of cracking branches and whole trees crashing down from the weight of the ice reverberated through the night and morning. There was probably about to an inch of ice coating everything. Ive never seen it this bad in all the years Ive been here. Weve had quite a bit of damage to the back gardens including my lovely tree hydrangea that Ive used as a backdrop for my bird photographs for the last three winters. An enormous White Pine limb crashed down onto it and there is only the trunk and a couple split branches left. Im brokenhearted about it but just have to look at is as an opportunity to do something new and creative with that part of the garden. We also now have a new hole in the garage roof where another large branch came down. Grrrr..
Half of the population of the state of NH is still without power tonight and they dont believe they are going to be able to restore service until Sunday or Monday. Fortunately we have a generator so we still have heat and some lights.
Anyway, whats the saying, When life hands you lemons make lemonade! So after picking up a ton of broken branches and stacking it all ready to take to the dump tomorrow I got out the camera and got some photos of the birds in the ice covered branches. The ice is lovely but too much is deadly!
