icicles

When I got back from California recently, I saw something I hadn't seen for a long time, icicles. It's been a mild winter, and icicles have been in short supply. Of course, during the warmer months the only place you can find icicles is in the back of the freezer. This seems to be the way it goes for many of the phenomena in the natural world; snowflakes, dandelions, wild apples...they're either everywhere or nowhere to be found.