Ice break-up and desert sands

Friday the ice let go with the west winds and slowly moved eastward, I've attached a video. The ice makes a tinkling sound like crystals of glass, I believe they call it candling. The sound on the video is not great due to the camera vs. the wind.

There is a "desert" just west of here of here that is actually and old lake shore from the last glaciation. The winds blow the sands around to actually form dunes. Some rare sedges grow there but are battling it out with the quad drivers. They are thriving on the steepest slopes.

Wildlife photos for yesterday were just the porcupine and the gopher as they call them here.

The back end or business end.