Spring Hoarfrost!

At the end of our winter...and just the hint of Spring coming,

we had a very hard frost.

I woke up to my delightful hoarfrost

and rushed out to get photos of it.

It never fails to amaze me with all the spikey

ice crystals clinging on to grasses and trees.

Even dead weeds become gorgeous with the hoarfrost clinging to it:

At the edge of a road was a frozen mud puddle with grass frozen.

Little blades of grass sticking up from the frozen ground had these spikes of hoarfrost:

You can see the ice of the frozen puddle UNDER the blades of grass sticking up, full of hoarfrost

on this shot. The other grass is frozen UNDER the ones sticking up:

Like snowflakes, no two crystals are supposed to be alike:

Love, love the hoarfrost "caps" on these weeds!"

Who knew that nature would provide an ice show on simple weeds?:

I loved the extended spikes on this blade of grass on the iced pond:

I knew you were getting too spoiled by all the wonderful Spring weather...

so I decided I better remind you of colder days....

Even cold days can bring beauty.

You just have to look.

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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.....