Dripping Icicles, because it's been cloudy since 10/09/2020 and I haven't been able to do any astrophotography

I'm not gonna complain about the cloudy skies here in Cleveland, Ohio the last four months, but it's been cloudy for four freekin' months!

So anyways, I decided to take out my camera just to see if it was still working.  We've had between an inch and six inches of snow every day for last two weeks and the temperature has been between zero and twenty-nine degrees. Yeah, not pleasant.

Now I just needed a subject. At first I thought I'd take pictures of my dog, who just had surgery on her leg and is pretty doped up, wearing one of those cones that make dogs look so damn cute and heartbreakingly pathetic. I took a couple pictures of her, and was thinking of posting them. 

In the pictures she was looking at me with the same disdain and utter hatred my wife looked at me with when I decided it would be historically important, and more importantly, funny to take pictures of her immediately after giving birth.

My dog is literally a bitch and, like my wife's post-birth pictures, I decided not to post the pictures online. 

I decided to take pictures of icicles instead.   

The Drip

 
In the picture below you can see the drip of water in what I call the hanging state. There is that umbilical cord like column of water attaching the drip to the icicle. (In this case the umbilical cord looks like it is almost frozen!)

The Hang

A common thread in all of these pictures of icicles is that the umbilical cord seems to collapse into its own smaller droplet and chase the larger droplet to the ground. The picture below is a good example of this phenomenon. 

The Fall

The picture below shows the drip, the hang and the fall on three different icicles at the same moment in time. If you look closely at the icicle on the left it looks like the drop has separated from the umbilical cord, but the cord hasn't collapsed on itself to form a second droplet. You can clearly see the collapsed umbilical droplet on the icicle on the right

Threesome (Get your mind out of the gutter!) 

Here is a series of five pictures featuring drops of water falling from icicles and the Sun.

Cause and Effect

C & E 

Geez, I wonder if I could get one to.....

Light Bulb Going On

I mean, it would be like a really lucky shot, right?

Oh So Close

Holy crap! That one was so damn close!

The Eclipse! 

Victory! Oh, sweet victory! 

I guess that if the sky is in the background it's always astrophotography.