Quote Originally Posted by mtbdarby View Post
Remember, there is no such thing as bad weather - just bad gear
We-e-e-e-ll, you gotta admit that certain weather is entirely inappropriate to certain sports, no matter how good the gear. Waterskiing with chunks of ice floating on the river, for example... downhill snow skiing with bare muddy patches... almost anything in a lightning storm... or road cycling with ice or salt on the road IMVHO.

But anyway, this seems like a good place to share my discovery a couple of weeks ago that sleet is actually beautiful weather!

I went outside in the sleet to pick some oregano for dinner before it got dark, and I looked at the plant and there was a perfect six-pointed star, maybe 7-8 mm across, made out of sleet. It must've started out life as a snowflake and gone through a few partial thawing/water accretion/freezing cycles on the way down. There it was, a perfect little life lesson, sitting on my oregano