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On calm early spring nights, when the temperature is below freezing, a thin sheet of ice will form along the shoreline.

If you catch the timing just right, you can hear the breaking ice tinkling musically as it piles up along the waterline as the sun rises in the sky.

The ice shards look like slivers of window pane.

Places where there was deeper freezing look like pieces of milky bottle glass, with a slightly cloudy white opaqueness to them

There's a lacy quality to the ice, when the light catches it just right.

When that happens, you can really see the paper thin layers of ice stacked by the gentle waves.

It's another beautiful, ephemeral thing that only lasts until the temperature rises or the waves finally sweep in far enough to wash it all away again.