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.