The day before yesterday when passing Green Turtle Pond I noticed that my favorite ice formations were back. When I returned from my errands I grabbed the camera and walked down in the 17 degree weather to try and capture them.

Ice globes as I call them, are simply ice that has formed around the bottom of cattails, but I always find them fascinating. The could be little glass vases too, or paperweights. Each one it’s own work of art.

I liked the reflections in these two photos.

There has to be a little wind involved as well for them to form, so the conditions have to be just right. And we’ve had both wind and below-freezing temperatures for the past few days. Perfect!

However in the process of getting these photos I had to walk over a slippery ice-coated rock. My foot slipped and my boot (I was wearing my leather UGGS at the time .. ugh!) went through the ice and my bottom hit pretty hard. I was trying to hold the camera up at the same time, so it wasn’t a pretty fall.

My noisy fall startled a flock of turkeys and they took flight across the lake.

I’m still not sure if the photos were worth the bruise on my bottom, but there you have them!

What unique photos! you are a true artist! I’m trying to imagine where Green Turtle Pond is. Is it on that road to Awosta (sp?) before you turn on to your street? Sorry about your bruise and hope your boots weren’t ruined.

Gee, thanks sis! Yes, off Awosting Rd. You’ve got it right! The boots turned out to be pretty darned waterproof and no harm done. More harm was done to my bottom than the boots! ouch.

They are amazing - I hope you were not too badly hurt in the fall - you got a good shot of the turkeys tho.

Joyce, thanks. No, just pulled my arm a little bit from trying desperately to hang on to a twig and a bruised bottom. Maybe the pride a little too, but only the turkey saw me.

Ouch!  BUT these photos, I believe, were worth the fall (I hope).  And I must be sheltered because I’ve never seen ice form like this.  Cool! or cold

Thanks Helene, glad you liked them. It is kind of sheltered. It’s an area just before the water flows over the dam in a narrow canal. They don’t last long like this!