Snow Mystery

When the sun was out yesterday, the whole back yard was sparkling.  There were brilliant specks of bright light everywhere in the snow cover.  So I got my macro lens, which is used for extreme close-up photographs, and went hunting.  I wanted to see what was causing this effect. I tried a whole bunch of different locations in the yard, and this image was the best.  I picked it because in addition to showing the way the snow has melted and re-frozen into ice, it makes an interesting mini-landscape photo.  The snow had melted some, and then refrozen and this clear ice acts like a lens and that's what refracts the image of the sun, creating the bright spots.  Click on the image to see more detail, please.