What the heck?

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Published: November 30, 2010

Darla Holdstock took this photo of a naturally created ice sculpture that she and her husband Nick, shown in the photo, saw in a creek bed near Arborfield, Sask., earlier this month.
The things you find when you’re out and about.
Darla and Nick Holdstock saw this ice sculpture near a culvert southeast of Arborfield, Sask., and Darla took this photo of Nick beside it, to show its scale.
“It seems to be icicles, frozen water and foam that formed into this unique structure at the base of the culvert,” wrote Darla in an e-mail. “It was foaming at the hole at the base, even though the temperature was -25 C.”
When they went back the next day, the structure had collapsed and there was no tree, post or other evidence of what the ice might have formed upon.
The Holdstocks farm about 1,400 acres near Arborfield.

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