Sweetgums, Stranded! Wild Winter Weather in Lawrenceville, Georgia

Protected by a mountain of ice, the sweetgum balls sit barricaded in the safety provided by the funeral home parking lot. These seedy balls fell from their tree captors before the cold weather came, and now find themselves cemented to the asphalt in this most isolated fashion.

Will they escape? Will the sun free them from their icy enclosure? Tune in next time to Sweetgums, Stranded! Wild Winter Weather in Lawrenceville, Georgia.

Little sweetgum ball: Alone in the icy tundra. 

A (painfully ironic) iceberg of sweetgum ball in the ocean of ice

Mercilessly stranded, they find themselves unable even to communicate with one another; each alone in the rolling hills of ice.

Her lover attempts to mitigate the situation, but all he can do is hold her hand and hope that everything will be okay.

Cold, lucky bastard. In falling after the ice accumulated, he escaped the immobility that now envelopes his peers.

Even colder, luckier bastards. They sit on their high horse-- err, tree-- and ignore their stranded brethren below.

The sun, their only hope for rescue, is hindered by the same clouds that dropped the snow and ice that led the little sweetgums to their predicament in the first place.