Chickadees and icicles

Sunny today, temperature up near 40 F, so the snow is packing up and leaving. This produces icicles on roof edges, which proceed to glint in the sun. We need to redeploy the window-sash prisms for the winter -- an assortment of glass that throws rainbows all over the room, but we have to take them down in the summer when we want to, you know, _open_ the windows. Rainbows in winter are a goodness.

Also chickadees. They flit around and scold us and the cat and nab seeds and fly up into the maple to whack them open, dropping hulls all over. Makes even the coldest, grayest morning a little brighter.

Great North Woods survival tip of the day: Beware of black ice at night. Melt during the day, refreeze on road surfaces or sidewalks when the sun goes down.