While walking back to my truck after turkey hunting yesterday, I took a few shots of the frost flowers.
A little bit of nature's beauty.
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Pat
Those are cool :eyebrownod: They look like torn and tattered cattails
That is a new one for me. I have seen frost on flowers, but never heard of Frost flowers. They look pretty neat.
Jerry
A few more from this morning:
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Pat
Thanks for the additional pictures. They look really neat to me.
Jerry
Wierd...but very cool yah. :eyebrow:
Very cool pics indeed!!
:wo: Pretty neat!
And a few more today:
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Pat
That is one crazy phenomenon :yoyo:
I had to WIKI the words frost flowers...to learn a lil more about them and man that is really some strange but really cool stuff going on there.
Temperatures have dropped and the frost flowers are blooming again.
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Pat
extremely interesting... will have to check it out further...
Those still intrigue me
Really cool stuff there, Pat. Thanks for sharing.
Never heard of them but they are kinda neat.
Found some frost flowers yesterday. I would not have noticed them if it had not been for the pictures you posted, Pat. Thank you. Wife loved them.
We went for a winter picnic yesterday to look at glaciers, mountains etc. and found these as well. These formed on dead alder sticks. In deep valley shadow so the light was poor for photography with a point and shoot.
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Those flowers still amaze me!! Nice pics Okan!!
Very nice Clyde. :biggrin: Many beautiful and fascinating things to be found in nature. :highclap:
Pat
I am right there with Glen (must be an Ohio thing) but they really are amazing.
Jerry
Quote from: HaMeR on January 22, 2015, 12:04:56 AM
Those flowers still amaze me!! Nice pics Okan!!
Ditto! It's like what in the??...I mean how in the??? I mean..wow!
Just saw an article on a scientific study of why frost hair forms. The article shows a fungus factor in frost hair that grows on wood, such as I found, shown in pics earlier in this thread. Wikipedia has an interesting bit on how the frost flower petals form that Pat's photos show. Frost flowers are more a capillary and extruding action, similar results but quite different from the fungus process on rotting wood. FWIW
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3171935/Mystery-HAIR-ICE-solved-Strange-white-frozen-growths-trees-engineered-fungus.html
:confused: So Pat ate some moldy frost??!!
:alscalls: :alscalls:
Its so humid here right now. :sad3: What I wouldn't give to be rolling in a field of frost flowers right now. :thumb2:
I'm with you Jim only I want to be in a different field so people don't talk.LOL
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Quote from: riverboss on July 25, 2015, 05:43:33 AM
I'm with you Jim only I want to be in a different field so people don't talk.LOL
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Quote from: FinsnFur on July 24, 2015, 08:53:37 PM
Its so humid here right now. :sad3: What I wouldn't give to be rolling in a field of frost flowers right now. :thumb2:
Yeah it may be too late for that. :innocentwhistle: :innocentwhistle:
:laf: wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too late!