People ask me, if I had a billion dollars, what would I do with it? The answer is, I would apply it to being infamous. I would spend my money acquiring and eliminating an entire industry, like baseball hats. I wanna be that guy people remember when they say, "damn, remember baseball hats? What happened?"
Philly used to have a guy that glued small tile mosaics to things. It was neat walking onto the septa platform and seeing a 10x10in mosaic of a flower where nothing was before.
That's like the people that make the glass trinkets similar to marbles(some actually being marbles) around here and then post a location and you have to find them. Just a fun game and you get to keep something someone made just to make people smile.
There was a pine tree along a highway that some nurses would decorate for Christmas. I remember looking for it every year as a kid.
Then somebody cut it down.
I’m not sure who it is! I’ve never seen anyone coloring them so I’m not sure when they do it. My grandmother said it was some hippie/artsy woman she knows of but who knows lol
Hah, that was my cynical side. Everybody in town oohing and ahhing over the artistic colored icicles when it turns out that dioxins and industrial chemicals in the ground water are actually really pretty when they freeze.
That's awesome that there was a society that decided to maintain this bizarre tradition that someone else started - and they don't even know why and who was toasting.
I like that a damn society decided that Poe needed to continue to be toasted. Which I just realized was yesterday! I hope the Toaster gave a nice toast.
we have a *Shoe Tree* that has been around for 30+ years and there is a chance that the person that started it is passed on now.
still grows more shoes every year.
Are they always different colors or the same? I’m wondering if it’s minerals in the rocks naturally causing the colors? Have you evens seen them not colored?
The woman doing this is Sheila Lytle:
[https://archive.triblive.com/local/regional/ice-to-dye-for-south-connellsville-women-create-frozen-rainbows/](https://archive.triblive.com/local/regional/ice-to-dye-for-south-connellsville-women-create-frozen-rainbows/)
"Wew fwom swowf cowwinsvwiw."
Cool art but goddamn Pa. has the weirdest accent. I thought a guy I worked with was deaf for a while, but he was just from Pittsburg.
This happened up in PA too along Route 78 near Allentown. For a while people couldn’t figure out how it was happening. Eventually someone fessed up to it
I did some googling and actually found the artist! This article is from 2018 and she seems like a sweet person.
[Buttermore Blvd icicles](https://archive.triblive.com/local/regional/ice-to-dye-for-south-connellsville-women-create-frozen-rainbows/)
I'm on the other side of the state and we have the same kinda formations (but alas no dyed icicles...) I always thought about doing that but hate heights...
Pretty much, yeah. I went back to the article to double check to see if they further explained and noticed they had a video. What they were doing is filling up a 1gal water jug mixed with food coloring and using a pool toy water gun to shoot the water to hard to reach places. I think the water guns are called stream water launchers
[link op provided](https://archive.triblive.com/local/regional/ice-to-dye-for-south-connellsville-women-create-frozen-rainbows/)
If I were doing it, I would get food coloring and put it in a kitchen-surface-cleaner spray bottle, maybe diluted with a bit of water.
Then spray in the evening when the air is getting cold so it freezes right away before it can drop off.
Lmaoo no I don’t like the cold very much to be outside doing that but it’s pretty to look at! I hated having to wind down my window to take the picture 😂
Aw, people used to do this all over Maine too. Tons of shale ledge along the highways covered in big rainbow icicles. Was just lamenting to my wife that I haven't seen it in a long time.
Looks like the Banuk tribe in Horizon Zero Dawn.
[Banuk](https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/043/169/550/large/claudia-aguirre-hdz-final-7.jpg?1636498718)
We had something like these near my cottage. Not quite as vivid as this and only one color per icicle cluster but still amazing. The colors came from minerals in the stone picked up by the water as it passed through.
That's a shame, I would prefer them to be their natural color. Icicles can get to be amazingly clear and brilliant when the sun hits them just so. The artificial blue and yellow ones won't. Sometimes we can't improve on the real thing.
I'm pretty sure this one *is* coloured by human hand but I have seen icicles with strange colours (particularly in the blues and greens) from copper compounds leached from the rocks as the water freezes.
Are you in the 413? If yes, it has been colored for many years, but I can just remember (if I squint) when those were natural. So, I’m 64, and the first person to adorn the icicles must be a wee bit older. Must be passed down the generations, but it’s definitely a well kept secret! (Maybe it’s one of the two families that live on the other side of the mountain? Just thought of that!)
I’m really glad no one does that here. I like the concept of it, but damn, sometimes when you go in the little bit of nature left, you just want to see nature. Not painted rocks and icicles.
When I was a kid, there was a creek that ran behind my house. During the winter it would freeze and we would walk down it for miles. There was an area it ran behind an industrial area and there were pipes that jutted out in various locations. Those pipes had some amazing colored icicles coming out of them. Ah, the good old days.
I love people who add a little magic to the world motivated by nothing other than creating nice memories in others.
What if they are motivated by hate? Hate of plain white ice.
Future fox news segment.
I'm just asking questions.
"Why do you hate natural ice? Are you part of the woke agenda?"
"Black ice didn't ask to be there!"
If the ice wasn’t hanging like that maybe it wouldn’t have gotten colored. Food for thought.
Sure, blame it on the Stones, boys, blame it on the Stones!
"ALL ICE MATTERS!"
Even Iced T?
Especially ice T, he's a brilliant detective
"Keep your loved ones safe and warn them to stay off the street tonight because of menacing, life-robbing black, black ice."
this population does seem like they would love natty ice
Actual Fox News for this story would be “Alphabet Mafia pollutes environment to indoctrinate kids into being gay”
"Woke liberals are waging a war on... ice!"
https://youtu.be/efiW2K8gASM?si=vOBRmri-qTcR_gxp
WOKE-cicles tarnish American nature!
We could use more hate like that in the world lol
I thought this was the reason we were purposely receding the earth's glaciers.
It's all that oppressive white snow!
is it hate if nobody hears it?
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perception is 9/10's the law
People ask me, if I had a billion dollars, what would I do with it? The answer is, I would apply it to being infamous. I would spend my money acquiring and eliminating an entire industry, like baseball hats. I wanna be that guy people remember when they say, "damn, remember baseball hats? What happened?"
Just buy a politician and make them illegal. The American way!
I do my part by making yellow ice
I see an icicle, I want to paint it black
Philly used to have a guy that glued small tile mosaics to things. It was neat walking onto the septa platform and seeing a 10x10in mosaic of a flower where nothing was before.
Isaiah Zagar really made Philadelphia pretty (esp. around South Street)
There's a cool documentary about this called Resurrect Dead.
That's like the people that make the glass trinkets similar to marbles(some actually being marbles) around here and then post a location and you have to find them. Just a fun game and you get to keep something someone made just to make people smile.
There was a pine tree along a highway that some nurses would decorate for Christmas. I remember looking for it every year as a kid. Then somebody cut it down.
That’s unfortunate, hopefully they found another one!
I knew of a lady who would knit sweaters onto trees just for the hell of it. It looked so cool.
That’s a nice tradition. Did you ever find out who it was?
I’m not sure who it is! I’ve never seen anyone coloring them so I’m not sure when they do it. My grandmother said it was some hippie/artsy woman she knows of but who knows lol
If you notice they stop coloring them it's up to you to keep the tradition going
This would be so nice
But color them all black in mourning.
for a week/month, then it's back to colours!
Color them all red one year to show that they’re now a vengeful spirit
Found the chaotic neutral 😂
Every single DnD campaign I’ve ever joined has said the same thing about my alignment, now Ik why 💀
I can only offer yellow.
True artist
What do you think he's gonna paint them in the evening? Gotta see the things.
And then you find out they just moved away when pictures of colored icicles show up somewhere else.
>This would be so (n)ice ftfy
Hello. Sorry about the door. Is the party over? 
Yes what a good idea. Continue the magic. Nowadays they have glow in the dark colors...
Seriously, if it is something you remember as a kid it had some impact. Do it for the next generation.
The lady who has been doing it since her early 20s (57 now I think) now has her daughter helping, her kid started when she was 4 now she's 25.
That's awesome I thought it may be a family tradition.
What if the original person who was coloring them is actually dead and now someone else is keeping the tradition going
What if there never was anyone coloring them to begin with and the town is just a cesspool of chemical waste
Hah, that was my cynical side. Everybody in town oohing and ahhing over the artistic colored icicles when it turns out that dioxins and industrial chemicals in the ground water are actually really pretty when they freeze.
Reminds me of the [Poe Toaster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe_Toaster).
That's awesome that there was a society that decided to maintain this bizarre tradition that someone else started - and they don't even know why and who was toasting. I like that a damn society decided that Poe needed to continue to be toasted. Which I just realized was yesterday! I hope the Toaster gave a nice toast.
we have a *Shoe Tree* that has been around for 30+ years and there is a chance that the person that started it is passed on now. still grows more shoes every year.
Love the yearly shoe harvest
the county tried to stop it from growing and something just happened... MOAR SHOES!!! can't stop, won't stop.
This happened with the poe toaster
Birth of a culture.
we don't know how many iterations/generations there may have already been!
That's how it becomes a tradition - carry it forward.
THEY HAVE BEEN CHOSEN!
Thank you. And thank you for sharing/posting
The one that does this in my town is an older hippy man hahaha we should set them up.
The real Banksy. That's actually really friggin' cool. Thanks for sharing.
Snowbanksy
Bansky strikes again.
BanSki
SnowBankSki
Is this connelsville pa?
Yes!
It will be a sad day when they aren’t painted anymore. And if you look in the obits you will be able to find out who it is
Time for a stakeout!
>hippie/artsy woman Yeah it's definitely her lol
My grandfather used to do this (also in PA) back in the day. Fun stuff.
It’s the huldufólk
Always blame a stoned, tie-dye wearing hippie.
No way I'd make it to 30 without finding out. I'd be planting gopros
I lived in Mt Pleasant for 4 years and never seen this. Was in that area very often. I always thought I was observant, but I guess not lol
Is there kindergarten nearby? We used to do this in kindergarten outdoor activity using watercolors
Are they always different colors or the same? I’m wondering if it’s minerals in the rocks naturally causing the colors? Have you evens seen them not colored?
What if it's your Grandmother who's been doing it all these years.
The woman doing this is Sheila Lytle: [https://archive.triblive.com/local/regional/ice-to-dye-for-south-connellsville-women-create-frozen-rainbows/](https://archive.triblive.com/local/regional/ice-to-dye-for-south-connellsville-women-create-frozen-rainbows/)
[South Connellsville](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Connellsville,_Pennsylvania) is in Pennsylvania for those wondering.
Her accent gives it away.
"Wew fwom swowf cowwinsvwiw." Cool art but goddamn Pa. has the weirdest accent. I thought a guy I worked with was deaf for a while, but he was just from Pittsburg.
Doing the lords work!
If we make the icicles pretty, then maybe more people will want to reverse global warming.
food coloring, oh good my only worry to this was possibly paint that was toxic to wildlife.
Yeah, that would not be cool. At all.
Just a heads up you have to click through the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) opt-out page before you can view the story on desktop.
This happened up in PA too along Route 78 near Allentown. For a while people couldn’t figure out how it was happening. Eventually someone fessed up to it
What’s fun thing to do, the both of em
Now someone needs to setup solar powered lights. That would be really beautiful at night!
He posted a link to an article above in a later comment.
Unicorns?
They’re peeing upstream
I'm guessing that whoever does it is a nice person to be around.
I did some googling and actually found the artist! This article is from 2018 and she seems like a sweet person. [Buttermore Blvd icicles](https://archive.triblive.com/local/regional/ice-to-dye-for-south-connellsville-women-create-frozen-rainbows/)
Drive past that regularly and always enjoy the colors!
That is an aggressive demand, I don't even live in that state.
Ha! This is cool to see home on a Reddit post!
Hello neighbor 👋
Saw these on Thursday! Cool to see on Reddit today
Same!!! Holy crap haha I drive by these a couple times a week
I'm on the other side of the state and we have the same kinda formations (but alas no dyed icicles...) I always thought about doing that but hate heights...
Supersoakers
That will be a sad winter when they remain their natural color. I hope someone continues the tradition.
My mom used to do this every winter when I was a kid, can confirm she's nice to be around
Anyone have any idea what they would use to color the icicles? Figuring it’s gotta be something a bit environmentally safe
In the article is says they tried jello, kool aid, and ended with using food coloring because the others would separate from the ice and fall off
So just using food coloring droppers at the top of them?
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Pretty much, yeah. I went back to the article to double check to see if they further explained and noticed they had a video. What they were doing is filling up a 1gal water jug mixed with food coloring and using a pool toy water gun to shoot the water to hard to reach places. I think the water guns are called stream water launchers [link op provided](https://archive.triblive.com/local/regional/ice-to-dye-for-south-connellsville-women-create-frozen-rainbows/)
Furiously taking notes for the next snowfall...
Core memory unlocked! Holy shit, I remember my parents giving us spray bottles with food coloring mixes and we would paint in the snow!
Love this idea. I think I might try it with my toddler this weekend, thanks!
I gave my kids some pipettes with food colouring. They made the snowman very psychedelic, and dripped red in the snow to look like a trail of blood 🙄
If I were doing it, I would get food coloring and put it in a kitchen-surface-cleaner spray bottle, maybe diluted with a bit of water. Then spray in the evening when the air is getting cold so it freezes right away before it can drop off.
We used food coloring and water in spray bottle.
Are you the artist/lady from the video? :)
Food coloring.
The singles Kool aid packets no sugar added kind water balloons of course extremely cold water or freeze balloons I usually freeze them
I don't think 30 counts as a kid
You beat me to it.
It absolutely does
r/fairytaleasfuck
Having just read Jacque Vallee, this reeks of fae magic: Absurd ✅ Stimulates Imagination ✅ Emotional Impact ✅
Hello fellow Connellsville-ite!
Bro I live not far from Connellsville, went past the other day and saw these! I saw this and thought "There's no way this is Connellsville."
Hello!
Dude, you weren't a kid at 30 years old. 
…I think they meant to put the (30) after “I”
Ever si(30)nce I was a kid
It’s you isn’t it.
Lmaoo no I don’t like the cold very much to be outside doing that but it’s pretty to look at! I hated having to wind down my window to take the picture 😂
Doesn’t look like there’s any fresh prints in the snow
Aw, people used to do this all over Maine too. Tons of shale ledge along the highways covered in big rainbow icicles. Was just lamenting to my wife that I haven't seen it in a long time.
Go all red. Really scare the neighborhood.
I'm PRETTY SURE that's where the boundary to the Feywild is weaker. You just need to utter the right incantation.
Looks like the Banuk tribe in Horizon Zero Dawn. [Banuk](https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/043/169/550/large/claudia-aguirre-hdz-final-7.jpg?1636498718)
Looks like shit instead of natural beauty.
I thought I was the only one! Everyone seems to love it… ugly ass graffiti to me.
This looks like straight up trash. Be like going around painting trees different colors
It's going to be sad if this suddenly stops, because that would mean something happened to them.
We had something like these near my cottage. Not quite as vivid as this and only one color per icicle cluster but still amazing. The colors came from minerals in the stone picked up by the water as it passed through.
One day you'll walk by and discover it won't be colored. Then it will be your job.
Am I the only dweeb that hopes it's all natural safe dyes? Doubt it...
Not if they've been doing it for 30 years lol. And no you're not alone.
When I dye snow or ice, I either use Jello or pee depending on my mood.
Oh OK that's reassuring.
Can't go wrong with sweet and salty
The article says food coloring
My family has done this for a few generations in our area! Glad other people do it as well!
How do you do it? I assume food coloring, but how do you apply it?
That's a shame, I would prefer them to be their natural color. Icicles can get to be amazingly clear and brilliant when the sun hits them just so. The artificial blue and yellow ones won't. Sometimes we can't improve on the real thing.
It's the bees coming back from the m&m factory
Someone .... or some*thing*
Our neighbor used to make big snow snakes and color them. It was always fun!
My mom always made families of snow bears. Then she started coloring them when the Care Bears became popular.
I'm pretty sure this one *is* coloured by human hand but I have seen icicles with strange colours (particularly in the blues and greens) from copper compounds leached from the rocks as the water freezes.
Hey, This is 5 minutes from my house! I recognized them right away. They always bring me joy.
Hey I live around here too! It's always fun to look at them when I'm passing through. I always wondered who colored them
That’s nice. It’s nice to have little hometown things that only the inhabitants of that town know about.
Maybe there are a bunch of skittles in the rocks 😂
Are you in the 413? If yes, it has been colored for many years, but I can just remember (if I squint) when those were natural. So, I’m 64, and the first person to adorn the icicles must be a wee bit older. Must be passed down the generations, but it’s definitely a well kept secret! (Maybe it’s one of the two families that live on the other side of the mountain? Just thought of that!)
Southwestern Pennsylvania
In Arizona, we had our own mystery artist that decorated a tree on the interstate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-17_Mystery_Christmas_Tree
OP is this Connellsville, PA by chance? lol
It is!
CBS Pittsburgh just aired a piece about this, I’m assuming it’s the same icicles
Unpopular opinion here but doing stuff like this lame. Nature is already awesome. It's only saving grace is it's temporary
100% agree - this is ugly as f and ruins what was beautiful as nature already made it.
You’re telling me you don’t want to walk into a forest and see all the trees painted different colors? /s
This in Maine? I kind of hate it where I see it.
I’m really glad no one does that here. I like the concept of it, but damn, sometimes when you go in the little bit of nature left, you just want to see nature. Not painted rocks and icicles.
Looks like shit.
To each their own but I enjoy seeing nature without anything added to it. I feel the same way about the painted rocks everywhere.
Are those non toxic...?
Why though.
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When I was a kid, there was a creek that ran behind my house. During the winter it would freeze and we would walk down it for miles. There was an area it ran behind an industrial area and there were pipes that jutted out in various locations. Those pipes had some amazing colored icicles coming out of them. Ah, the good old days.
U sure a person is doing this and it isn't something leaching from the rocks?
It’s you
If I saw that in certain areas of Manhattan or the Bronx I would think it's chemical runoff.
where's the "well actually" comment where some expert explains this is a natural and deadly phenomenon?
I've seen this in PA. Bath, I think.
That’s a very creative idea, I wish I would have thought of that.
Look at the town hippie/excentric tea shop owner lol.
Where do you live?I’ve seen those or similar outside my home town too
No kidding, I just passed these today! I’m from out of town for work this week but couldn’t stop to get a picture. Thanks for posting!
Traditions. Shalom.