Blue anti-freeze, a blue Italian Ice. That’s what went through my mind when I came upon the circle of blue in the snow in the woods.
Nothing natural, that’s for sure, but then where did it come from? What had turned the snow blue?
There was not a footprint, animal or human, anywhere close to it.
In the center and on the edge of the blue circle, two rabbit pellets sank in the melting snow. If it were yellow, I’d have thought that hole in the center was made by the rabbit’s urine. That’s would have made sensed.
But blue…and such an intense blue.
Maybe the rabbit ate mouse poison or something else that would have turned it’s urine such a shade of blue, I thought. I have no idea if that makes any sense, but it’s all I could come up with.
After that my ideas veered to fairies and elves.
If I hadn’t taken a picture of it, I don’t think I’d actually still believe it. I’d think that maybe it wasn’t so blue, or blue at all. That I was mistaken.
But as I look at my photo, I am just as bewildered by the blue circle in the snow as I was when I saw it.
Antifreeze can be blue and is lethal to animals
Yes, it is Kay.
Wow. That is really mysterious. Maybe it is fairy ink that got spilled and the fairy is sad because she can’t write her letter to her secret friend called Maria. :)
That is the best explanation I’ve heard so far Laurie. :)
Hi Maria, Yes, blue snow I’ve seen it before. Could be Snow appears blue naturally when light travels through a deep layer of snow, causing the longer wavelengths of light (like red and orange) to be absorbed more readily, leaving the shorter blue wavelengths to be reflected back, creating a blue appearance; essentially, the same phenomenon that makes the sky blue, but happening within a snowpack. As explained by AI.
Pretty COOL! Jean
I googled blue snow too Jean. But this was different from the light playing on the snow. I’ve seen blue snow in the shadows of mounds of snow I even took pictures of it one year. This was a perfect circle on a flat surface. I’m still puzzled by it.