ICE, WIND & RAIN

I cannot make out what is going on with the weather today.   Is it freezing or is it not?  Early this morning, all was icy outdoors.  Grass was white, my car was frozen solid.  The strong winds that have been promised by the weather-forecasters have not yet arrived but the rain has and there is a southerly breeze.  It's a drizzly kind of rain right now and, at this point, instead of the ice just disappearing, I discovered that black ice is turning my patio into a skating rink, and that some of the climbing plants that are exposed to the wind and rain at the top of the fence are turning white and very pretty as if they have an edging of lace.

 

I think it must be thawing a little but all the grass is still white.  How odd.