Durch ein Einfachfensterglas sehen wir ein schneebedecktes Tal. Im Vordergrund der Holzzaun eines Gartens. Im Hintergrund Hügel links und rechts einer schmalen Strasse. Das Fenster ist mit Eisblumen geschmückt.
Mir ist grad danach 😅
#Winter #Mood #Mountain #Flower #Frostflowers #Photography #Fotografie #SchönesgegenDoofes #AincaArt #WalkinBeauty #StöbernimArchiv
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A frost flower has spread out from three sides of the stem of a dittany plant in swoops and swirls and even a small curl encircling the stem.
This frost flower has made a single elegant circle from one spot on the dittany plant.
Frost flowers, many origins vs one.
#photography #frostflowers #ice #frost
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
Ice ribbons from a dittany stem produce shapes that resemble bows if you use your imagination.
#frostflowers try their hands (What hands?) at tying bows and ribbons #photography #nature #winter
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 seen from the top and one side with an "arm" across its top and and a swirling "skirt" at the bottom with a grooved vertical shaft.
From this angle, the "arm" is on the left side, the shaft and skirt aren't visible. Instead there is a "wall" with two deep curves protruding from it.
Part of the fun of photographing #frostflowers is deciding how to take the shot -- so many sides and angles. They can look very different from different perspectives. For example, these two shots of one frost flower.
#photography #winter #Indiana
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
A tall, swirling frost flower is partially transparent where it is melting. In my area, the dittany plant can form frost flowers when the temperatures are below freezing overnight but the ground is not already frozen. The cold temperatures cause liquid in the stem of the dittany to expand, causing cracks to form along the length of the stem. Water is then forced out throw the cracks and freezes upon contact with the air. As more water is drawn through the cracks it pushes the thin ice layers further from the stem creating the 'flower'.
This frost flower has a window in it that lets you see a structure within it.
Two #frostflowers from the first batch of the season.
#photography #winter #frost #ice
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White ribbon-like ice that has been extruded from the stem of a dittany plant makes an interesting and fragile natural sculpture on the forest floor. The ice that had been in sunlight was beginning to melt and was clear.
Here's another frost flower. I cropped this photo a lot to show the streaky patterns in the icy ribbons. The cropping made the background grainy. The actual frost flower was only about 2 inches (5 cm) tall. #photography #frostflowers #nature
The white ribbon-like flower on the stem of a dead plant is not a flower at all or a fungus. Frost flowers are icy structures that emerge from the stalks of thin stemmed plants. The water in the plant is forced out of the plants in these fragile sheets. Like snowflakes, frost flowers are infinite in variety. The ones in our area mostly emerge from dittany (Cunila origanoides).
The first frost flowers that I've seen this season showed up in the woods yesterday. #photography #frostflowers #nature
First freeze created frost flowers - rare ice ribbons on plant stems that last hours before melting.
Need perfect conditions, disintegrate at touch. Found across Eastern U.S.
Each unique, gone for a year.
#FrostFlowers #WINTER #Missouri #Tennessee #indiana #FirstFreeze #USA #TheLolgic
Two frost flowers close together, both with swirls and ripples. In my area, the dittany plant can form frost flowers when the temperatures are below freezing overnight but the ground is not already frozen. The cold temperatures cause liquid in the stem of the dittany to expand, causing cracks to form along the length of the stem. Water is then forced out throw the cracks and freezes upon contact with the air. As more water is drawn through the cracks it pushes the thin ice layers further from the stem creating the 'flower'.
A tall frost flower with two 'wings' and a swirling ribbon.
A frost flower with small ripples, curves, and a solitary curved ribbon at the bottom.
A melting frost flower is almost transparent.
The Friday Digital Archive Dive is uncertain about frost flowers this year (drought, unseasonably warm) so is picking some from the many in the archive (see 1st ALT image for how they are formed).
Taken #OnThisDay November 14, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2020
#photography #frostflowers #ice #frost
Frost flower on the forest floor - looks like soft serve ice cream
Frost flower on the forest floor - looks like seashell
Frost flower on the forest floor - looks like glowing toilet paper
Frost flower on the forest floor - looks like a white flower
Frost Flowers
#frostflowers
Pretty patterns on the door window glass, made by frost on a chilly morning. We call them frost flowers. #canada #winter #frost
Frost flowers! Sometimes, when conditions are just right, frost makes lovely patterns on our back door window. Short-lived, but beautiful!
#winter #frost #frostflowers
Thanks to @WDEFNews12 viewer Jacqueline Glassford of the Cumberland Plateau area for a view of #frostpillars or #frostflowers... Thursday's @LangleyRoofing #WeatherWindow #PictureOfTheDay. Got #weatherpix to share? Go to wdef.com/weather
Thanks to @wdefnews12.bsky.social viewer Jacqueline Glassford of the Cumberland Plateau area for a view of #frostpillars or #frostflowers... Thursday's @LangleyRoofing #WeatherWindow #PictureOfTheDay.
Got #weatherpix to share? Go to wdef.com/weather
Pure white strands that look like hair "grow" in locks from a stick lying on a bed of moss
Good morning!
How are you holding up?
What are you up to today?
We finally had the conditions for good frost flowers (hair ice) Thursday night/Friday morning.
(thread)
#HairIce
#FrostFlowers
Kuurankukkia viime vuoden tammikuulta, oman kerrostaloasunnon ikkunasta. Frost flowers last year, seen in the window of our home.
16.1.2024 ❄️🌞
Tänään #sää kuin marraskuussa.
Today the #Weather is like in November.
Mutta ei se haitanne.
But I don't mind it much. 😊🌧️
#photography #valokuvataivas #Helsinki #FrostFlowers
Frost flower ribbons on Pluchea odorata.
Some quiet winter magic. ❄️ Frost flowers forming on Pluchea odorata—delicate, fleeting, and a reminder of nature’s artistry. #frostflowers #nature #winter
In my area, the dittany plant can form frost flowers when the temperatures are below freezing overnight but the ground is not already frozen. The cold temperatures cause liquid in the stem of the dittany to expand, causing cracks to form along the length of the stem. Water is then forced out throw the cracks and freezes upon contact with the air. As more water is drawn through the cracks it pushes the thin ice layers further from the stem creating the 'flower'. This is frost flower has spread out along the ground like a long ribbon that has been dropped.
This frost flower is actually two different frost flowers. One is in two separate pieces, the bottom one is an open oval, the top piece is a half curve. The other frost flower is in an almost closed wing formation. They are both lying on a bed of dead leaves.
This is also two separate frost flowers, a low round one in front and a thin one going up the dittany stem in back with another piece at the bottom in a perpendicular shape with a large opening where it left and came back to the stem.
Some #FrostFlowers that had ambitions for greatness but ended laying down on the job.
#photography #winter #ice
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In my area, the dittany plant can form frost flowers when the temperatures are below freezing overnight but the ground is not already frozen. The cold temperatures cause liquid in the stem of the dittany to expand, causing cracks to form along the length of the stem. Water is then forced out throw the cracks and freezes upon contact with the air. As more water is drawn through the cracks it pushes the thin ice layers further from the stem creating the 'flower'. This frost flower is long with a 'crown' on the top that looks like small petals. The rest of the flower is is two curving sides.
This frost flower is on a bed of moss that is covered in a dusting of snow. The frost flower is more horizontal than vertical and is a mass of curves.
This frost flower is topped by one big curve and a small one. The rest of a one long curve.
Frost flowers with swoops and curves.
[Info on how frost flowers are created in the 1st image's ALT]
#frostflowers #photography #winter
In my area, the dittany plant can form frost flowers when the temperatures are below freezing overnight but the ground is not already frozen. The cold temperatures cause liquid in the stem of the dittany to expand, causing cracks to form along the length of the stem. Water is then forced out throw the cracks and freezes upon contact with the air. As more water is drawn through the cracks it pushes the thin ice layers further from the stem creating the 'flower'. This frost flower is long, smooth at the top and curly at the bottom. The top has started to melt so that some of the ice is transparent.
This frost flower is nestled on a bed of moss and moss sprouts. There is snow on the moss. There are three frost flowers in the photograph with once being entirely in focus and only the bottom of another one in focus. The focused frost flowers have curled and wavy edges.
This frost flower is surrounded by dead leaves and blades of sedge, some of which are still green and some are brown. The frost has two curved wings coming out of each side of the stem and a third smaller curved wing that seems to be coming from behind.
It hasn't been the best winter (by far) for frost flowers but happily they haven't been completely absent either.
#photography #ice #frostflowers
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masterpiece.
Have you seen any “nature art” like this recently? Let us know what amazed you!
#WildWisp #NatureFacts #WinterWonders #FrostFlowers #WildWithWisp
Frost flowers! These ephemeral ice sculptures are formed by the hydraulic action of ice being extruded from the stems of White Crownbeard. So pretty. #verbesinavirginica #frostflowers #frostweed #iolaks #nativeplants
I love when I learn something new. Being 57 and finding frost flowers are real is the most amazing gift. #frostflowers #missouri #nature
Crystallofolia (Rabbit Frost or Frost Flowers) is back. They brought me back to the poem I created for them last year. The Exquisite Work of Mother Nature.
#Nature #FrostFlowers
"Frost Flowers" This form of ice can resemble curled fur such as seen here in white curving curls, twisting out from wood grain that the freezing temperatures overnight made the water inside fallen tree limbs extrude form the wood grain. Here, most of the white curving form of the ice curls takes up the majority of the image from bottom to center-top. to the left can be seen part of the broken end of a dark colored wooden branch the ice came out of. To the right is some fallen tree debris of small dark colored twigs, and a yellow leaf on the forest floor, with some green in the background. To the top of the image is the extended length of the fallen tree branch, becoming blurry in the out of focus distance in this close-up.
"Frost Flowers" This form of ice can resemble curled fur such as seen here in white curving curls, twisting out from wood grain that the freezing temperatures overnight made the water inside fallen tree limbs extrude form the wood grain. Here, most of the white curving form of the ice curls extend away from the viewer along a light tan tree branch that rests on the forest floor. Some foreground leaves at the bottom of the image are green and out of focus. toward the center left, and right, some fallen leaves rest on the delicate ice. The forest floor to the left and right are dark colored and are a jumble of small twigs and pine needles. The top of the image is out of focus with more ice on the tree limb, and forest floor debris.
"Frost Flowers" This form of ice can resemble curled fur such as seen here in white curving curls, twisting out from wood grain that the freezing temperatures overnight made the water inside fallen tree limbs extrude form the wood grain. Here, most of the white curving form of the ice curls takes up the majority of the image from bottom right to top left. The left potion of the ice curled from the fallen tree limb are in the shade. The right side is in direct sunlight, showing detail of the threads of ice that resemble hair or fur curving to the right. Some of the underlying light tan color of the tree limb can be seen through the ice threads. The remainder of the close-up image is darker with only long out of focus shapes of some cedar tree leaves, and twigs visible.
A nice surprise on the #hike were " #frostflowers ". Fallen tree limbs that are wet, and exposed to freezing temperatures will sometimes steadily extrude ice from the wood grain that resembles hair, fur, or even sort of flower petals. All made of very delicate ice that quickly vanishes in warmth.
