Waters born in summer of melting glaciers are found frozen again in wildly varied and interesting patterns on the wind-scoured surface of Abraham Lake, Alberta, Canada.
Like most who have been fortunate enough to see them, I love the beautiful turquoise and blue hues of the rivers and lakes in the Canadian Rockies and elsewhere where glacial "rock flour" infuses the stirring waters. But the thick ice that blankets these lakes in the depths of winter appears more obsidian than blue from most angles in most lighting conditions. This morning though I did catch a little of that glacial turquoise at a fairly shallow angle in the soft, warm light of sunrise.
This trip just before the pandemic having been my first time on that great winter ice, I hadn't learned the physics that give rise to all the amazing shapes, textures and colors in that spectacular and sometimes foreboding ice, so I wandered and wondered in awe as a neophyte, trying to take it all in and snapping away furiously in the beautiful dawn.
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