When the weatherman got it right Tuesday night (some might say finally), Wednesday morning was a shining, glittering ice show. On trees, power lines, roads and sidewalks.
Is there a better way to show how much ice coated the area than to show birds trying to hang on to the ice-crusted limbs?
The problem, of course, is how to get the photos in the freezing rain without frying the mucho-expensive digital camera. A trusty WalMart plastic bag works as well as anything. Just tear a hole in the bottom, poke the lens through and stick your hands through the handles. It works. Chris at the Camera Center of York says he doesn't sell a 'camera raincoat' because he's never found anything that works for many different cameras, or any better, than a plastic bag.
It certainly doesn't look very sexy, but a plastic bag could be a cheap life saver for your camera. And digital cameras, it seems, 'fry' at the hint of humidity.
And here I thought you were being sarcastic when you said gray, dreary, icy days make for great nature pictures! These are incredible!
Let's not be mentioning WalMart for a plastic bag you could have gotten from the trash collection in the back of your vehicle. Hummm... I realize you want a down home image, but you'll turn off readers such as I, who prefer not to wander there. Your pictures, however, are 1st class.
WOWWWWWWWWW. That's all I have to say about these two pictures.