little space guys made of ice

These pictures are weeks old, but in my winter art slump they have stayed on my camera until just today, when the sun has pulled me outside to take pictures and I was reminded of these from this cold day.
I love the way the lake changes in winter. It gets these crusts of ice that morph and melt and tower and crash and change all the time. I like looking at the progress as it goes through its stages. As I carefully crunched through the snowdrifts and icedrifts and sand-ice-snow drifts, the waves kept crashing against the ice-mountains that had formed at the edge. Bursts of thick grey water with chunks of ice exploded into the air. I found a snow fort, and also these funny little ice forms that looked like bowls tilted on their sides. Or a vast army of snowball space men.