Icicles

It is a cold and dreary day in Central Texas today, hovering around freezing - not exactly the kind of weather I want to go out and garden in.  But, now that the holidays are over and the days are still short, the weekends are the only time I have to really enjoy my garden.  So, I bundled up and ventured out.

What I saw were icicles...EVERYWHERE!

Hanging off shrubs...

...holding onto veggie vines...

...trimming the new bluebird house...

...grasping onto the shed and deck...

...and decorating branches with glistening prisms.

While it might be too cold and wet to enjoy digging in the dirt today, there was still much beauty to behold in the great outdoors.

Ice Ice Baby

We've been having bi-polar weather here in Central Texas the last few weeks.  Last Saturday was in the 80s.  Last night was in the low 20s and today was freezing rain.  I'm pretty sure that I've lost some of the plants that I planted last weekend with this crazy weather, which is a real bummer.  Just to be sure there are no more freezes, I plan to wait a couple weeks before I plant anymore spring plants in the garden.

Everything is not bigger in Texas.  These baby icicles are proof.

Cardinal and red-bellied woodpecker at the feeder

The ice sparkling in the sunlight

Poor, poor veggie plants