Wikipedia talk:Featured picture candidates/Snow scene at Shipka Pass

It is not an ice storm, folks. This winter in Bulgaria was extreamly cold. The temperature dropped on several occasions bellow -20&deg; C. in the cities during the day and you can imagine that up high in the mountain where this image was taken it was even lower. When it gets that cold all the moisture gets "sucked up" by the cold surfaces of tree branches, leaves, even the snow surface, and forms these wierd ice needles that keep growing - the longer the frosty whether stays the longer the needles are in length. Ice beauty. -- Boris 18:02, 9 February 2006 (UTC)