Photo of the Week: Snow Lump

Here you see the results of my labors with a shovel: a gigantic lump of frozen precipitation taking the form of crystals of intricately branched, hexagonal shape and conglomerated into a mass of flakes, formed directly from the freezing of air-borne water vapor.

This photo is in black-and-white, though it would appear virtually identical in color; the starkness of this configuration of snow and iron, which greets me each time I leave or return to the house, is what inspired the snap.

Sometimes I wish the entire world was monochromatic, like a creaky old movie in which everything seems simpler, clear-cut, more... more... black and white.

Click the pic for a shiver.