13 February 2010

Icicles and gravity

Over the last few days, it has been sunny and in the upper twenties, so some of the snow has melted. This morning I went out side and found these warped icicles on a bush in the back yard. It looks like, as the snow melts and drips down on the icicle, it freezes, but as the icicle grows, its weight alter the shape of the limb, and so what is down, relative to the branch is changing slowly over time.

All I can say is nature is amazing.

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