Frost flakes

Hmmm... that title sounds a bit like cereal, doesn't it? But it's not. It's more hoar frost, believe it or not! Just when I thought I'd seen (and blogged) every kind there was, there appeared something different last Saturday morning. Of course, all this frost means we've had an awful lot of fog, and I'm getting sooo tired of all the white scenery... white ground, white sky, and often white air. Ugh. When's spring???

Saturday morning, however, the fog cleared early, and it was already sunny when I went out to feed the cats. I couldn't help noticing (and trudging back to the house for the camera) that this frost was very flakey-looking, and it stood out at right angles to whatever it was on.

They were very thin, flat, fragile flakes.

Pretty amazing, huh?

The ground seemed to be covered with these flakes, too, and it was very sparkly!

Everything sparkled!

The trees sparkled, too, although it's a little hard to see in this photo.

In the photo below, I was trying to get a shot of the frosted grass, but I ended up getting a better shot of the flakey ground.

Suddenly, in the midst of my snowy/frosty picture-taking, what to my wondering eyes should appear but a Rainbow in winter! Now that's some contrast!

The railings along the deck steps were quite interesting, too. They were covered solid with the frost flakes.

They certainly made for an unusual texture.

(Click any photo for a bigger view.)

Because all those flakes were so thin and fragile, they didn't last long that morning and were soon melted and/or blown away.