Snow pellets appear as powdered sugar on an otherwise-smooth sheet of ice.
I took a little midday trip to the Lake Erie shore at Huntington Beach Friday. It was cold but at least the wind was not hard. Still, by the end of my brief session my fingers were stiff and red from holding my Canon PowerShot G11 bare-handed. I could have spent a couple of hours there exploring the scene; the light was gradually changing and there were so many interesting shapes and patterns to discover. My schedule and cold-hurting hands forced me to leave all too soon. The lake was frozen over for as far as I could see. Mounds of ice had piled along the sands, apparently from previous thaws followed by freezing. Ice and snow, recently deposited, gave texture to open areas of ice. Spring comes soon, ice will merge with the waters it hides, and the lake will emerge again.
Plates of broken ice pile over one-another on the sandy beach.
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The bottom photo looks like it could’ve been taken at one of The Poles. And, there’s a marshmallow in the top photo….
Mmmmmm… the “marshmallow” would go well with all that “powdered sugar” that somehow got spread all around! Are we hungry?