Rare in TEXAS

Posted by Lyndsey Le (Houston, TX, United States) on 18 January 2007 in Plant & Nature and Portfolio.

I think this is as cold as it can get in Houston, TX :) Temperature dropped to the high 20's low 30's yesterday when a winter shower made its way across south central Texas.

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Comments (9)

badala from Leiria, Portugal

Splendid capture!

18 Jan 2007 1:32pm

Dimitrios from ATHENS, Greece

worth keeping in order to show the future generation what Climate Change did to the world! Nice photo too

18 Jan 2007 2:14pm

benjamin from Singapore

wonderful macro... great textures!

18 Jan 2007 2:51pm

Angry Buddha from United States

Great work on this Lyndsey! We have just gotten a cold spell as well. It was 70 last week and 22 today.

18 Jan 2007 5:01pm

spots from singapore, Singapore

oh no! that's truly cold - and in texas of all places! i heard it snowed in san diego recently ?

18 Jan 2007 9:15pm

Immersed Photography from Houston, Tx, United States

That's great! I took some icle shots at work but they were complete duds. This is beautiful. ** and yes, dont' feel bad about occasinally reposting old photos in the back of your archive that you think are worthwhile (like your waterwall shot!), that way we can see them again. All you do is change the date on the image and it moves it for you, so all your previous comments on it are still there as well. Pretty cool. I am reposting a couple recently that no one has seen in a while since I haven't had a chance with the weather and work to go shooting pictures. Stay warm!

19 Jan 2007 4:52am

@Immersed Photography: Yeah, there are quite a few of my favorites that I back posted. Thanks for the idea, Sheldon! Will try that some time :) Cheers and stay warm, too.

Still from Valence, France

Impressive image!

19 Jan 2007 9:06am

Fred from Easton PA, United States

You just reminded me of the one and only time I had been to Texas !
It was 1980 something ( most of the 80's are a blur to me ). And my then future ex-wife decided to do something nice for my birthday.. It was a trip to South Padre Isle.

Though it was the middle of February the weather channel forecasted temperatures in the mid 80's. I couldn't wait ! So we packed all our summer gear, shorts swim suits, beach towels the whole sha-bang.

Imagine my surprise when the captain of the plane said landing would be delayed for two hours due to freak ice storms. We looked at each other in our seats and she asked " Did you pack a coat ?". Only the one I left the house with, was my reply. Thank god it was winter at home or we'd have froze every time we went out .

We finally landed in Houston for out connecting flight to Brownsville. Thankfully that plane was delayed long enough that we hadn't missed it. Upon arriving in Brownsville we picked up our rental car and proceeded to South Padre.

The ride for the most part was uneventful as I'm used to driving threw snow and ice on a regular basis. But there was one thing that caught my eye amongst the glittering plains. Every time we passed a larger home or estate the lawns would have domes of what looked like ice scattered about in a quite orderly fashion .

At first I just glimpsed with mild curiosity but as we drove on these strange domes appeared more and more often. The mystery start to eat at me, I had to know what they were, and why they were there !

So I pulled the car over to the side of the road got out and went for a closer inspection of one. As I drew closer there was a faint churning sound to be heard and the dome seemed to actually be pulsing from with-in.

It looked like a rather large version of the top of one of those old percolator coffee machines, I could see movement threw the ice as I bent over for a closer look. I stood back up and gave it a slight kick to see what would happen. Big mistake !

The ice shattered like a fragile glass and then an explosion of freezing water blasted me in the face so hard it knocked me off my feet !
There was a scream behind me, my wife thought I had been shot by an angry Texan for trespassing !

As I laid there stunned getting soaked by this artificial rain I realized that the domes were caused by lawn sprinklers that were most likely on timers .

I rolled my head in the direction of my frightened wife and calmly said...It's only water. Her fears turned to laughter as I picked myself up and headed back to the car. You Jerk ,she joked at me . Yeah I said as I dug threw out luggage looking for beach towels to wrap myself in.

Well that's my Texas story, Thanks for bringing out that memory.
( a good picture will do that ya know )

19 Jan 2007 6:22pm

@Fred: Wow, what a story there Fred! And thanks for sharing :) I think my curiosity would probably rise to its hightest level if I came across those sprinkler-icicle-domes, too. I would probably do the same (check it out), and who knows, the outcome might be even more terrifying :)

Well, stay warm this time.

Lyndsey