Flowers of Ice

 

 

 

At around the time of the full moon we had part of a night and part of a day of thick fog.  This is not usual here.  The result was some rather amazing ice crystals.

window frost

cones and crystals

cyrystals on pine needles

I love it when the low winter light catches bits of vegetation and leaves the rest in shadow.

ice landscape backlit

4 bits of grass lit

These two seem to be having a conversation.

ice conversation

A grass seed head loaded down.

grass and ice crystals

Then the sun came out.

from the north bluff

The air was full of glittering ice crystals.  (Very difficult to photograph!)

ice glitter in air

But in shady places, the crystals lingered and grew even longer.

large crystals

crystals hanging

And more amazing!

huge crystals

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