Kennebunk, Maine, March 2026. Continuing our emerging theme of the strange and wonderful shapes ice takes on a good ice day. If you look closely, you will see that the tail on this ice globe looks like it formed around a little thread of bark hanging off the main twig. If you look closer, you will see that what looks like bark threads inside the ice is actually the focused image of the twigs behind the ice globe. You can see other images of the surrounding twigs in the main body of the globe. The tail was probably formed when the weight of the ice in the globe became too much to resist gravity, and the ice began to flow down rather than build up on the globe itself. You can see this “sag” at the top of the globe too, only there the presence of the twig itself is doing as much pulling up as gravity is pulling down, forming that little peak. Strange indeed. Did I see all that when I took the photo? Of course not. I just saw a shape that spoke to me, and what it said was “take my picture.” I did, and now I have the leisure to look more closely, and so do you. 🙂 Sony a6700. Sigma 16-300 at 140mm equivalent field of view. Aperture Program with Macro modifications. Processed in Photomator.