The frost flower in this photo reminds me of a small bird with its tail stuck up in the air. Wrens do this so maybe this is a frost flower's interpretation of a wren.

Sometimes a #frostflower decides it needs to shake a tail feather. #photography #winter #nature #FrostFlowerFriday

This black and white photo of a frost flower shows the delicate curves of these gifts of early winter. I shot this with a 105mm macro lens with a nearly wide open apperture. This allowed me to keep the edge that I wanted in focus and blur the rest of the frost flower.

#FrostFlowerFriday The delicacy of these ribbons of ice is my favorite feature of winter. #photography #frostflowers #B&W #macro #winter #nature

This is a pinwheel shaped frost flower photo that I converted to black and white. The light was dull and it was in a deep shadow, but the shape was interesting to me.

It's #FrostFlowerFriday. The variety of shapes of frost flowers amazes me. #photography #frostflowers #winter #B&W #crystallofolia

This frost flower is one of the more symmetrical ice ribbons that dittany, water, and freezing temperatures produce. The brown stem in the middle of the photo is the plant that the water squeezed out of as it froze. I never know where I am going to see a frost flower, but the common dittany likes to grow at the edges of opennings in the woods. I found this one alongside our road on the way to bring back the trash can.

The #FrostFlowerFriday theme continues. Frost flowers have a number of names: frost faces, ice castles, ice blossoms, or the fancy one #crystallofolia. #photography #dittany #nature #frostflowers

A ribbon of ice has formed on a dittany stem.

It's #FrostFlowerFriday. I think this one looks like it is holding out its skirt for you to admire. #photography #plants #nature #winter #ice #frostflowers