A Cold Freezing Day

It has been cold this week....unusually cold for us here on the “wet” coast. The skies have been clear blue but the temperatures down to -8 on some mornings. Today my daughter and I went for a drive as she had seen pictures of this “ice sculpture” on facebook and wanted to go and find it. We knew approximately where it was and it was easy to find. I was expecting some little frozen ice sculpture where water would usually run, but this is what we found.



Beauty hanging in the trees

It was so amazing. I couldn’t help but think about what beauty God creates for us and how strange it was to see something like this on our coast and in amongst the trees. Unfortunately someone had painted it green I guess in the hopes of making it look like trees. We took picture after picture and I loved the way the icicles had formed.

I loved the way it bubbled...

I loved the way it hung on the trees...

And then I felt the spray of water and looked down. Ah yes a split plastic water pipe running through the forest. This wasn’t a creation of God but an accidental creation of man. It still was beautiful but the mystery of it all quickly disappeared. I hoped that whoever’s property it was knew of the water leak because obviously it had been leaking for some time and was being rather wasteful.

So there is beauty in nature and beauty in creation and even beauty in man made creations...they’re just not quite as special as God's.