Michelle McAfee Photography

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Nizina Glacier, 2011; Wrangell-St.Elias National Park.

The toe of the glacier, melting, breaking, smashing into the next version of itself as water, amazes me. Ice, eons old, just lets go and surrenders to the greater forces of the Sun. It stops being ice, but starts being a river moving a gazillion times faster and farther in its new form until it meets the sea where it dissolves again.