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I took this photograph when I was out for a drive last spring. I somehow made my way from Rochester to Canandaigua taking only back roads and then I headed north towards Lake Ontario. Once I got there, I found one of my favorite spots along the water and parked. After walking around for a bit, nit finding anything interesting, I happened upon this cluster of bushes encased in ice. I’ve never seen anything like it before but it was one of the most beautiful/incredible things that I’ve ever seen. Each branch was encased in its own sleeve of ice and then groups of them had fused together into larger masses. I’m assuming that they were created when the water that was whipped up off the surface of the lake was dispersed onto the branches of the bushes and trees. Since it gets quite cold up here it just makes sense that the icicles formed. I walked around them for a bit and then photographed them for a few minutes. As soon as I was done though, all of the ice began to collapse; almost as if their time had come now that I had captured them. I’ve always considered myself to be “lucky” and getting this photo was just another notch in my belt for that. I’m going to go back this coming spring to see if Nature will be able to create something this beautiful twice. My favorite part about the whole situation is that this wonderful bit of ice was the only place along the coast that I could see that had anything like this. Along with the fact that this was directly adjacent to a big, ugly jetty made of cement that juts out into the lake. Why can’t more people make jetties like these?
