Mystical Ice - Missoula, Montana

"There’s always that first step in skating, from dry ground to slick ice, when it just seems impossible. Impossible that two thin blades of metal will support you, impossible that because its molecules have begun to dance a little slower water will hold you up."  - Carol Goodman, The Lake of Dead Languages

And this is the last of the mystical ice pictures, confluence of freeze-melt-shimmer shadow-reflection captured in the blink of a digital lens. Winter does, indeed, have its particular charms, if we will just bundle up with only our eyes showing and go take a look.