This is going to be the centerpiece on our dinner table tonight. I wish I could bring the sunshine, clouds, and blue sky into the house too, but my new glass pitcher (a gift to myself!) and ice balls will have to do.
I'm not a member of Pinterest, but I have visited a few times. On that site, I saw variations of ice balls in rainbow colors (for outdoor fun) and learned they use food coloring and water in water balloons (freeze them) to make the balls.
I thought a single color in a glass container would make a unique centerpiece.
Blue might also be very cool.
I love ice. It has enormous potential as artwork. Why don't more people work with ice?
Did you know the ice castles moved from Midway, Utah to Silverthorne, Colorado?
Here's the link to their new site.When I visited the Midway ice castles
last year, I asked Mr. Christensen about adding color. He says they don't do that. I like the natural colors and I think it would be cool if they had a small area where they tried using pops of color just for fun. Or they could make a color cave. Seems like inside it would melt less. Even if it melted and colors mixed into the snow, that could be beautiful and interesting.
A little clump of these flowers surprised me this morning. I lifted this one to the sky. What are they? The shape and size of the stems remind me of snow drops and the flowers remind me of small irises. These and the tiny wrens in the tree brought me joy today. Spring will come!
Four inches of snow last night. So far this winter, that's the most we've received at one time. I made a snow angel. White on white, the angle, and a not-so-great camera means you can't see it. Instead, here are pieces of my view and a serious-looking me. I could worry about a lot of things. But more and more I'm reminded that most of what I worry about today won't matter a day, a month, a year, a lifetime from now. I know it's better to let go of the worry, relax a little (or a lot), and look up.
