Hoarfrost!

When we were heading home from visiting with our grandkids last weekend in Kenosha, Wisconsin, we saw that their fog had frozen into hoarfrost on all of the plants.

It was gorgeous!

(To learn more about hoarfrost, see HERE).

So of course, I had to stop and take some macros of it!

I loved the texture of these plants coated with the hoarfrost:

And I love palm grass.

The only thing better is palm grass with hoarfrost on it:

All the branches were sprinkled with powdered sugar:

And the pine needles?

Wonderful!:

But these little SPIKEY plants, were the best:

This cedar tree could have been one of those Christmas trees that you spray with white paint, don't you think?:




Blue sky
and
hoarfrost popsicles!:




And palm grass brooms of frost:

I would have loved to drive way out away from the freeway and gotten some farm field scenes of the hoarfrost on all of the trees in the background, but it was melting fast and we had a schedule to keep....


But I sure was glad to be able to see some of it.


It only happens a few times a year and you have to be in the right place and the right time.


Luckily, I was.....