Andrew Trundlewagon's photos with the keyword: ice

All best wishes for the New Year

Objects in a freezing pond.

An ice-oddity. I was in the woods on the weekend and came across masses of needle ice like this along the banks of small streams. I have not seen ice behave like this before, although it is a known phenomenon. Apparently, if the soil is saturated with water and the soil temperature is above freezing but the air temperature is below freezing, ice forms at the surface and is pushed up by hydrostatic pressure from the water below (not sure I understand that to be honest) to form these strands or needles of ice. These were about 5 to 7 cm long (roughly two to two and half inches). They remind me of the fibre optic “hairy” lamps that were popular in the 1970s and 80s.

Spray from a rushing stream frozen on a fallen twig

By the edge of a frozen lake, a pinecone fallen on rough ice.

Ducks are supposed to fly South for winter, but there was a small group that might not have read the memo and stayed all through the year.

Waiting for spring; a duck on a frozen pond.

In the bleak mid winter. A view of a frozen lake, Mont St. Hilaire. It looks like a black and white photo but this is in colour.

Snow and sleds, Toronto, December

A winter street, a cold day, ice, snow and wind.

Ice ferns formed on glass, January 2014