ice rope

ice rope
Originally uploaded by libraryann.

Last week was a strange one in Austin, Tx. It started sleeting and snowing and all activity came to a halt. Roads iced. Schools and businesses closed. Cameras came out.
I've seen more pictures of iced leaves, grass, and fence posts than I can count.
Now the temp has risen and we have been released from our iced vehicle cocoons. Those pictures and piles of damaged tree limbs piled on the curbs are all thats left of the Jan Ice Storm 2007.

Tuna in the year 2007

Does anyone else think it is odd that my can of tuna fish doesn't expect to "go bad" until my son's 10th birthday? I'm almost tempted to keep it and open it on that day as a special treat. Sort of a time capsule, if you will. Who knows what the state of the oceans will be in 3 1/2 years? Who knows what conservation laws will be passed perhaps outlawing tuna fishing or somesuch. Maybe by then aluminum cans will be replaced with some miracle canning material of the future, polyester sacks or organic meat bags made of sheep bladders.
Of course, I can't keep it. I've already eaten it, are you kidding? When you have the magic combination of tuna, miracle whip, sweet relish and hard boiled eggs in the house who waxes poetic about the future? I had just enough presence of mind to get the camera out for this shot.