A frosty walk on New Year’s Eve with my Virtual Dog had me taking snapshots of the icy puddles I came across. This was the last one. Here be monsters, ghosts, puppets, all kinds of flights of fancy. What can your imagination come up with as you peer at this ghastly frozen face?

And as it was my last shot of the month, I’ll pop it in for Brian at Bushboy’s World Last on the Card event. I’ve had to make it square for this month’s Square Up challenge, but apart from that, this icy image is just as it appeared, winking up at me from a frigid, frosted muddy path.
And there’s always Six Word Saturday, too …

Look at you combining challenges, following virtual dogs and seeing creatures in the ice – so much creativity and brilliance and it is only day 2 of the year. Loving it 😀
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I’ll be exhausted soon, and disappear without trace, so don’t worry!
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you’re not allowed to do that!
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Nooooo, don’t do that!
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Love the ghostly image. Great last photo. Thanks for joining in all three challenges 😀
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Bit lazy eh? One photo, three jobs to do 😉
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😀 😀
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Not lazy at all, inspired use of time!
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Now you’re scaring me 🙂 🙂
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Tee hee, as Sue might say.
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I see faces!
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So do I Elke. Slightly malevolent faces.
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Great idea, Margaret. Definitely a puppet floating on its back 🙂
Even our ice is muddy down here 😦
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Yes- I had to get out early today (with Virtual Dog) so the ground would still be nicely frozen.
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I see a snarly ghostly face there. 🙂
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I fear you could be right …. woo-hooo.
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Haven’t seen a face like that since i stopped doing psychedelics.
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Ha! 😉
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Designs in cracked ice have always captured my attention, so thanks for capturing it. Happy New Year to you!
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They’re fun, aren’t they? So many stories waiting to be told.
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Who ya gonna call? Icebusters?
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Sure. We need a pome. Right now.
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I love shots like this, although I have to live on the ones in my archives since we don’t get ice in this part of Arizona and if we ever do, I’m pretty sure it won’t be on this scale. 🙂
janet
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Love this image!
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I was quite taken with him/her/it too!
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It’s definitely a ghost raising up from the frozen ground 😀 Delightful fancy and imagination 😀 😀
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Great job in combining the challenges too!
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It’s a bit tortuous, but – well, who cares!
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Yup, who cares haha
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Pretty photos but it does look very cold and slippery! Stay warm!
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That’s the plan. It IS cold here.
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If my dad thinks it’s cold it must be! The wind must be coming from the north hope it turns round soon!
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Brilliant! I hope you grimaced frostily back and then headed home for hot coffee!
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Of course!
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That is a great take on, Margaret! Brilliant!
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Thank you. He was leering at me just begging to be taken.
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How wonderful! It reminds me of a cross ghost, half melting away.
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It could well be …
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Loved the dog and tadpole! Perhaps if I ever open a pub, which I won’t, that’s what I’ll call it. A bit late but Happy New Year!
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Well, there’s a new interpretation! Happy New Year to you too. Has this been an Aigues- Vives -free year?
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We managed a couple of weeks in July. It turned out they were almost the only 2 weeks of unrestricted travel
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I guessed you might have had some proper winter ice – nature doing that interesting pattern thing again. Well spotted and captured. Think I might have just crunched through it.
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Yup – an icy weekend, but all gone now. Though it’s still cold. Brrr.
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