Ridiculous Lengths, Ridiculously Painful!

I know I seem to be a bit obsessed with the whole ice and snow thing lately, but these icicles have grown to radically large proportions, and I feel the need to document them!

As I was taking the photographs early this morning, I opened the door to the deck, and as I stepped outside one hefty spear plummeted off the gutter and bounced off my left wrist before plopping into the snow at my feet. You can see it posing next to my other camera (put there to give a sense of scale). It looks sort of like a frosty x-ray of a broken bone. I'm hoping that's not what happened to my wrist ... but to look on the bright side, at least I have something to ice the swelling with!