Overflow ice pictures

We went for a walk up the creek with the dogs today, and the overflow is amazing. It's doing this incredible thing where it's lower in the middle and then goes up the sides. Way up the sides. Orion thinks that the creekbed is completely frozen and this is forcing the water to percolate through the ground and seep out the side of the hills, because it's forming these frozen cascades coming out of the sides of the valley.

... which of course I didn't have my camera for.

But when we got back, I went and got my camera and walked down onto the nearby stretch of creek to get some shots of the local overflow, because it's still pretty cool and kind of looks like flowstone or melted wax -- it's been so cold that the water freezes almost immediately when it wells up, so you can clearly see how the layers have built up.

A picture is worth a thousand words, though. ( And there are several of them under this cut. )

Well, this is one of the creepiest things I've seen lately

It took me a while to figure out if this website was a joke or not. (I'm pretty sure it's real. But still not 100% convinced.)

http://www.homestead.com/godslittleones/micropreemies.html

They're pro-life "micropreemie" (a.k.a. fetus) dolls. Now, regardless of where you stand on the whole issue of whether life begins at birth, conception, quickening or wherever, I don't think anyone can deny that the human fetus, baby or not, is really freaking creepy looking. It trips our whole sense of "human, but not quite human, AAIIEEE!" And thumb-sized plastic fetuses dressed in baby clothes are, frankly, about ten times as creepy-looking as they would be in their natural environment.

Here's the main page, FYI.