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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

melting summer

Thanks to a lovely blogging friend I have been able to breathlessly admire white "wintriness"....the kind of pristine white crystals I am never going to see here where we live.

So on this hot summer day of ours we decided, to make a couple of our own big summery backyard icicles to hang and admire in our garden.


And watch melt over a couple of hours......

Letting the drips land on grass, hands, heads, toes.....whatever would enjoy the cooling sensation and novelty most.....

Until nothing was left other than the jute rope, a petal or two and some pretty memories of moments just watching the melting....

10 comments:

Jodi said...

what a beautiful idea...a nice meditation, watching them melt

Anonymous said...

how fabulous, such an innovative idea......i often make an ice bowl in the summer with flowers in it and then put in ice cream

Sherrin said...

what a sweet idea! I might do this with my boys. :o)

Madeline said...

That's a nice idea for a hot summer day. Thanks for your comment. I had no idea about the gag reflex. That is pretty cool--annoying, but cool.

Sabrina said...

Oh my goodness- these are too gorgeous! The colors in this photo series is taking my breath away. What a creative idea, what beautifully rendered icicles!

Levin said...

what a fabulous idea - i will definately try that one soon. actually, i should organise it now as sunday is supposed to be warm. :)
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Anne said...

Looks beautiful!
I did this in an ice cream container with little plastic dinosaurs and little odds and ends that you could freeze. On a hot summer day, my older two would have fun playing with the frozen ice excavating the toys.

karen said...

wow, these look beautiful, i love the colours inside of all your beautiful flowers:) what a beautiful idea to watch them slowly melt over the day. and i can imagine little fingers would love to cool themselves on them:)

Molly Betsy @ Star Cottage said...

Wow what a great idea, we will have to try these some time. :)

Tammy said...

Oh gosh, those are so pretty. What a lovely project...