I don't know that I ever would have noticed the beautiful patterns in the icy mixture that had formed from the sleet melting with freezing rain, freezing together as one, and melting as one. Look closely and you can see the circles that were formed from each tiny ball of sleet. Some even have these amazing dotted and striped patterns within them {I'm not sure why that is - if you do, please share}. And then there were the leaf exoskeletons! As the ice melted, fragile little sheets of ice, molded by bamboo leaves, fell away and left behind what looked like fairy wings. They were perfectly wonderful!
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This is a part of the Around the Block series for the Life+Lens Blog Circle. Go check out the Keli Jennings Photography blog to see what she photographed around her block!