On calm early spring nights, when the temperature is below freezing, a thin sheet of ice will form along the shoreline.
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.
3 comments:
Lovely, I can just imagine the sweet sound of the tinkling ice! Thanks so much for sharing!!
Shooz
Beautiful pictures of the stages of ice thaw and crackling.
Sheila
Thank you, Shooz and Sheila! It's so nice that there are other folks out there who enjoy the same sort of unusual little things I do! :)
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