After two days of freezing cold, today the temperature warmed to just above freezing, with the sun out. Imagine my surprise when I exited at noon to find the ice had formed exquisite patterns of fissures and surface patterns. My quess is that the surfactant trapped in the ice bubbled to create the patterns, but it may just have been the sun itself acting upon stresses within the ice.

I attempted to shoot from different angles to get the sunlight reflecting in different ways.

In any case, I really love this one for its muted color and interesting patterns.