Wednesday, November 10, 2010

H/ Alphabe-Thursday

Hoar frost on seed pods

Hoar frost is a a kind of frost that looks feathery.  In case you are wondering, we have not had weather cold enough for this to happen yet this year. I took these photos last February.

Hoar frost on dried  teasels

Water vapour in heavily saturated air condenses slowly into interlocking crystals.

I am linking to Jenny Matlock at Alphabe-Thursday HERE

38 comments:

Paulie said...

How beautiful it makes them! You done good! I wish I could find some to photograph this winter. . .

Michelle said...

You captured the detail of the frost so nicely.

kayerj said...

It looks like the snow fairies were busy in Ontario

Jenn Jilks said...

Beautiful!!!

SouthernSass said...

I wish we had frost that looked like that! Beautifully captured!

Jan said...

Fabulous.

Rinkly Rimes said...

What a beautiful effect!

Along These Lines ... said...

I was wondering what that term meant

SandyCarlson said...

An incredible feast for the eyes. I am grateful to you and that frost for these.

Mary said...

I'm not familiar with Hoar frost~ what fantastic photos!

Sue McPeak said...

Beautiful photos and exquisite ice crystal formation.

Jackie said...

Actually we had hoar frost the other day . It is said about the manna in the desert that it looked like hoar frost so that is good to know .

George said...

These are great pictures of the hoar frost.

Randy said...

Wow, those are amazing. It made me a little excited for our first snow of the season.

Shirley said...

Incredible detail in the frost. Great photos.

Jack said...

I learn so much through all these blogs! "Hoar frost," huh? Yup, we get some of that in Hartford but I never thought to give it a name.

Jama said...

These are so pretty! you captured the details so well.

Andrea said...

Of course i haven't seen these in real life, so thank you. Even snow i've just seen once only. But i am not really that fascinated with snow, it is autumn which makes me feel so deprived. haha!

Francisca said...

Simply beautiful. Beautiful. That second photo I could stare at for a long time. And I needed to learn the word HOAR ice... maybe now you'll find it on my blog one day, EG. :-D

Lola said...

Such beauty captured here!

Great post - as always!

XOXO Lola:)

Cezar and Léia said...

Brilliant pictures, the macro is perfect!
Léia

Coffeedoff said...

Such beautiful pictures. If we get a hoar frost, I will go and look at the plants instead of staying in the warm.

Tracy said...

I so love winter photos never heard of a hoar frost before.thanks for sharing and visiting

Unknown said...

Wow! Those are amazing! I've never heard of or seen hoar frost but that is an incredible sight! You did a very good job capturing those :) Now I wish I could see them in person too.

Birgit said...

What beautiful photos -- thanks for sharing!

syel said...

very nice detail on the frost. i've never seen one as i've never been to any place with snow (natural one that is! :D)

Unknown said...

This is beautiful! I am not ready for it to get that cold here.

Darla said...

Fantastic detail.

Darla

Anonymous said...

Wow wow and wow! These hoar frost shots are amazingly lovely.

Pondside said...

When I see shots like yours I think I should never, ever post another photo.

Susan Anderson said...

I think I LIKE hoar frost!

Really beautiful.

=)

Judie said...

Great photos! a very interesting H post.

H said...

You captured the detail beautifully!

Jenny said...

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I've heard that phrase before but was always too lazy to look up what it meant.

I've visualized a few things (some not so savory) as to what it meant, but the true meaning of the word is so much lovelier than I could have imagined.

Thanks for a wonderful, informative and beautiful link to Alphabe-Thursday!

A+

Viola said...

Fantastic photos! I love the frost, the rime on the photos! :)

Tina said...

Wow. Just wow. You are amazingly talented. Thanks for sharing your work with us!

genie said...

In this part of the country we get a similar icing which we call Rhine ice. It is so beautiful...when the trees on the mountains have it hanging from them it is like you are walking into a magical world. For a Floridian it is truly a sight to behold. These shots are so very beautiful. The second one is amazing.

Rocky Mountain Woman said...

Brrrr....

By the end of the winter, I'll have hoar frost on my kitchen windows...

aaaghhh....

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