Encased

Chill airs and wintry winds!
My ear has grown familiar with your song.
From Woods in Winter by Longfellow

A weatherman put it quite nicely last night. "Another one to four inches of snow tomorrow. Nothing you can't handle."

This unlucky rhododendron branch is lined up with the edge of the roof and, therefore, also with the icicles that have occasional melting moments. But it will live to bloom again this spring. And won't that be a fine thing.