Garden Pic Wednesday: Frozen Chicks
Last night we had basically an ice storm. A light bit of rain and freezing temps overnight left a sparkle of ice over everything this morning. Hubby had to scrape a thin coating of ice off the driver side of the wind shield this morning---he used an expired Chick-Fil-A card, since he didn't have a scrapper handy. The sun had already melted away frost on the passenger side. It was working quickly on everything else, too, by the time I walked around with my camera later in the morning. I did get some nice photos of my Hen & Chick succulents dotted with frozen ice specks: A coating of ice doesn't bother them. I love these things! A Little Solar Science: If you've been paying attention to solar science, then you may already know we've entered a period of solar activity time called a "Grand Solar Minimum." That means the sunspot and flare activity on our sun has dropped from being very active to very minimal. Our sun has a ...