Nature’s Own Ice Sculpture

This is just the sight Michigan’s Tammy Shriver was struck with when she looked outside.

Water had been melting from the rooftop of the hemp farmer’s home onto the tree branches below. As a freeze-thaw-freeze sequence took place amid changing winter temperatures, a natural ice sculpture emerged.

“Oh my gosh,” she remembers saying, “That looks like a bird!’

Though a sparkling formation is no longer ornamenting a branch outside Tammy’s home, she feels blessed just to have enjoyed the sight for a week. “My grandma liked hummingbirds,” she says, “maybe grandma sent me a hummingbird.”