On my way to an early morning appointment, I stopped the car at a drainage ditch along Piney Woods Church Road. After months of being dry, the ditch had filled with water after yesterday morning’s rainfall. In the bitter cold that has followed, the water as iced over, leaving patterns of water bubbles near the surface. Below are three photos of the bubbles, converted to black and white with a dark blue filter applied. I find myself entranced by these frozen patterns of concentric circles.