Ice on Barn Roof
Thursday, January 20th, 2005
These pictures were taken a few years ago up in Cornwall, Connecticut at the farm that a friend of ours has one of his three “sugarbushes” on. A sugarbush is a grove of sugar maples that are tapped for sap which is boiled into syrup. Our friend has a large operation here with 3 acres of tubing running down a hill to a 1000 gallon collection tank.
Anyway, that has nothing to do with these photos which are of snow which solidified into ice and moved down a slick metal barn roof into wonderful shapes.
The top picture reminds me of a toboggan (upside down). Of course I’ve never used one; sleds, saucers and tires tubes were more my style.
Same idea… metal roof is very much like the bottom of an old fashioned toboggan (or, as we used: a piece of old meta roofing!).