Lopstick, iced!

Yesterday I peered from my window and saw that many of my neighbors had driven off to presumably celebrate Christmas with family and friends in other places. Not me. I'm still hunkering down and waiting out the most recent mutation of the Rona. Of course, there will be other mutations popping up, and I will be distancing myself from those demons as well...

This morning I peered from my window and saw the crabapple tree covered in sun-lit ice. Stark beauty in stark times. Now this crabapple tree is also known for mutation... and truth be told, come spring, its fruit will harbor wasps, like a fig tree...