A very old kettle

The landscape where we live was heavily glaciated during the last ice age and the evidence is clear to see. The brown area in the middle of the grassy plain is a kettle hole. Kettle holes were formed when huge blocks of ice became separated from a retreating glacier and buried in the debris. When these  ice blocks eventually melted they left behind holes or depressions that filled with water to form kettle lakes and eventually with sediments and peat to form kettle holes.

The photograph involved some rearrangement of time and space. The kettle hole is local, the retreating glacier is in Iceland.