January thaw

There hasn’t been much of a winter here, truly, so far.  In my childhood (oh dear, here we go) December was cold and snowy, a white Christmas was a certainty, with several feet of snow, and everyone was already weary of winter by now.  So Mother Nature gives us the January Thaw, with temperatures above freezing, which both melts some of the snow and makes it packy and malleable, well suited for snowmen and snowball fights.  All of the water from that melting snow can’t soak in to the ground because the ground is frozen.  The area where I’m living has a lot of limestone, which forms in layers.  These frozen icicle waterfalls are everywhere, forming where water has run between layers of limestone and frozen where it pops into the open air again