Breaking news from my freezer this week, there’s more ice art! I mentioned odd natural ice formations in my freezer before, but this one is different than the leftover crystals because it was freshly frozen.
Here’s how it went down: An uncooked, square dish of lasagna was topped by a layer plastic wrap, and then placed in the freezer for a couple of weeks.
When I was ready to eat lasagna again, which wasn’t long because I’m like Garfield and love lasagna, we peeled the layer of plastic away from the lasagna and a wonder was revealed. Voila! The plastic was gone, but there appeared to still be a layer of plastic wrap. The moisture underneath the plastic formed into a thin layer of ice that followed the wrinkles and contours of the plastic.
This ice development in my freezer caused me to look up more information about natural ice formations.
Once I was down that rabbit hole, I learned that slow moving creeks, rivers, and lakes sometimes create “ice circles”. It might sound like these are crop circles, but I assure you, they weren’t placed in the middle of a lake by aliens. These round slabs of ice develop in the center of the body of water, rather than the edge, which is part of what makes them unusual. Check out this particularly unusual spinning ice disk observed on Michigan’s Pine River.
You never know if you’ll spy odd ice formations in your freezer or local waterways. Keep your eyes sharp and share pictures of your finds on Tamawi’s Facebook page.