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Dear Friend, Have there been very times in your life when you could not believe what your eyes were seeing? There have been a few of those times in my life but only one of them was captured on video. I asked my brother-in-law to try and find the clip that he filmed while we were walking along the lake at MacDowell dam; it has been 4 or 5 years ago now but it was this time of year, when the ponds were freezing over. The following video was taken at normal speed and it has not been altered in any way. What you will see is ice freezing and thawing and refreezing. We stood there, disbelieving and glad to have one another to confirm that we were not imaging what we were seeing. We watched for a long time before he even thought to film it. As a joke, my brother-in-law tried to match his breathing when he could see that the ice was beginning to melt, but his breath had nothing to do with the melting and freezing. If you watch it several times, you will see how the freezing begins further out. What the video does not capture is that when the breeze blew the ice formed. The stronger the breeze, the thicker the ice. To give you an idea of the scale, the trees in the center of the photo were about 10 inches wide and the area we could see was the size of a tennis court. The tangle of branches in the picture were more like small trees, each measuring 1-3 inches across. Check it out:
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