ice-coated trees
Sunday night it freezing rained. Monday it snowed and sleeted and then freezing rained some more.

iced-in car
Tuesday morning it took me 30 minutes (not exaggerating) to get enough ice off my car that I could go for groceries. After hacking at it for a while, I gave up and let the car idle with the defroster on until it warmed up enough to melt the bottom bit of ice. It takes a diesel a long time to warm up at idle.

While waiting for it to warm up, I wandered around and took pictures of the ice coating everything - it’s really quite pretty.

Today is cold. There’s still ice on everything. Our parking lot is almost the same color as the snow from all the salt on it. Hurrying to catch the bus, I fell on an icy bit in our parking lot - two days in a row. It’s pretty and all, and it’s nice to look out the window and see it look like January, but it’s getting old. Tomorrow’s forecast high is 29F, and that sounds downright balmy.