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Winter’s Secret Art: The Hypnotic Beauty of Ice Circles

26 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Aura516

Giant, rotating disks of ice (up to 50 feet wide!) that form in slow-moving rivers, carving themselves into near-perfect circles. A chunk of ice breaks off and floats downstream. Currents push the ice into a gentle rotation, grinding its edges agains...

Winter’s Secret Art: The Hypnotic Beauty of Ice Circles

"Ghost apples are not edible. They form when freezing rain coats rotting apples on trees. As the apple turns mushy in the cold, it slips out, leaving an icy shell. When the ice melts, the pulp falls away, leaving a translucent, ghostly husk.

22 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Aura516

Ghost apples are not a type of fruit that can be consumed. The phenomenon where freezing rain covers a rotting apple before they fall and when the cold turns them mushy it slips out and leaves the icy shell hanging on the tree. As the ice melts, the...