Awareness of the outside world. “Birmingham’s high on Tuesday was 27 degrees, breaking the previous record in 1977 of 30.” AL.com: These 4 Alabama cities had record low high temperatures on Tuesday, Morgan, Jan. 17, 2024.
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Alabama 19o
January 2024
A coat of ice. Dangerous. Pretty.
Technical Details
Phone camera. Partly, didn’t want to drag big camera out into freezing temps. I’m sure cameras can cope. Wasn’t sure what precautions were needed. If any. Mainly, majority of my brain space taken up by arctic blast. [The Cold Is Coming]
Many more photos snapped. This was the lucky shot. Need to be a better photographer than I am in order to capture sun on ice.
Onwards!
Katherine
Virtual Brush Box 
Brrrrr. And dangerous. I hope you stayed off the roads. Louise
All around us—just a few miles north or south—and worse in Portland and even worse further east along the Columbia River. Ice encasing everything, coating streets, keeping people off streets. Feet of snow. Somehow our little community is enjoying its own micro-climate. Cold-ish but no snow, frost in the morning but no ice. Our power was out for a few hours during the terrific windstorm. We have driven to pick up our mail in the past ten days. I am mostly cooking from the pantry and freezer.
from Jan in Oregon. Finished two shawls by weaving throughout daylight. We are grateful for the wood stove for heat.
Roads, no. Power, yes.