More winter wonders

[urbpan]

Raccoon and squirrel tracks on the snow on the ice on the pond in the deer enclosure.



The evening before I dumped out the turtle sandbox we use for the goose pool and left it upside-down and empty (in warmer weather, we refill the pool the day before to save time in the morning). When I turned it over in the morning to refill it, I involuntarily uttered OH MY GOD.



The very small amount of water in the overturned pool froze (crystallized?) in these patterns.

Comments

[sin-agua.livejournal.com]

It looks so much like Victorian fern wallpaper, or fabric - I'm picturing it as curtains or a bedspread. How fantastic that you got a photo of this phenomenon. Beautiful.

Someone wrote a haiku about it on haikusenryu. :)

If nature and natural organic form isn't god's handwriting, I don't know what is.

Amazing.