Christmas Trip to WI, 2014

After Christmas, we traveled to Wisconsin to visit our families.  We have seen various people and various movies, revisited old memories and made some new ones. We got a few inches of wet, sticky snow in the Mountain area a few days ago, followed by a cold snap.  The result has been a winter wonderland effect - it is still sticking to the trees, and in some locations near water there has been some really cool feather-like frost flowers (with "feathers" about an inch long - a more sophisticated description is given here on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost_flower_%28sea_ice%29).