January 23, 2008

• More Cool Ice

  Here are a couple more ice photos I took along an intermittent creek bed below the cabin.  The first is a one I took in a [water] losing stretch of stream bed.  The image shows a horizontal plane of ice with sensual swirls and openings intersected by leaves crossing the frozen plane diagonally both above and below.  Upon closer inspection, I inferred that this delicate layer initially formed as an ice skin atop a shallow pool with floating leaves.  Gradually though, the as-yet unfrozen water underneath was seeping down through the gravel bed into the invisible groundwater supply.  The result was this fragile ice platform suspended between leaves and stones over open air rather than over surface water.

  

  This next picture I took while sitting within the creek bed immediately upstream of a seepage spring.  You can see how the water comes out at the lowest edge of the soil just where it meets the top layer of exposed bedrock, and then cascades down the rocky ledges.  Isn’t nature cool?!  I think I have said this somewhere here already, but seeing water emanating from Earth never ceases to fill me with awe and wonder and gratitude.

  

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