When we moved here to the North Carolina Piedmont we were warned to expect ice storms on a fairly regular basis.  We lucked out last winter and didn’t get any, but this year we had our first bout of ice fun.  Last week we lost power from Thursday afternoon through late Friday morning so by dawn on Friday morning we were living in a refrigerator, which meant we didn’t sleep particularly well and then at about 6 a.m. Celeste and I were shot out of bed by the sound of a large pine falling across our neighbors fence and squishing their kids’ plastic play set.

I couldn’t go back to sleep so I went outside and started snapping pics all around our property.  Here’s a link to a photo gallery of some of those pics (I was bored so you can believe I took a bunch).