Cold Snap

It's been brutally cold here for the last few days. Getting outside has been almost painful with the temps being below freezing even during the warmest part of the day. Despite their complaints, we bundled the kids up and took them to the Bicentennial Greenway for a walk along the creek. 

  There were some really cool spots where the creek had frozen. There was even this spot that had ice thick enough to support the kids walking on it. The place was maybe 6 inches deep and I'm pretty sure it was actually frozen solid. 

 It was frozen enough to support even me!  

 This is something that rarely happens here, so it was cool for the kids to get to experience something like this. 

A Frozen Bog

It's not often that we get cold weather for any extended period of time, so when we actually had a few days in a row if freezing temps, it made for some cool things in the Bog Garden.

 The icicles on the waterfall were beautiful.

 The shallow areas of the pond were frozen over with about an inch of ice. It was strong enough that the ducks could walk on it, although it was a little difficult for them.

 The kids throw some branched at the ice and got them to stick through it.

 All along the trail, the mud had frozen into hoar frost, which made some very cool crunching sounds as they jumped on it.

 The really like how it was all very straight and lifted up the dirt on top of it.

Ezra wanted to carry some around with him, but, of course, it melted before he could get it home. :)