Ever wonder what the inside of a snow drift looked like? Now you know! This thing grew all day long during Dec 20 2006ths Blizzard here in Colorado. It is still snowing as I type this, but the total so far is roughly 18 inches, with very bad winds. Denver got it worse and areas like Boulder CO got over 3 feet! Seems the eskimoes were right-- there are a lot of different kinds of snow-- as seen here in these rings.

As it says-- all things natural, I tried to limit this collection to things occurring without the aid of man.

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ryans > Winter's Refusal. You will bow before Winter! An April storm that came with three days of ice and frost forced these flowers to the ground. They recovered nicely, however.

ryans > Disappointing Catch. Not much use to the occupant, this web is holding weight that is 100s of times its own weight, thanks to a late Winter storm. You can almost hear the spider saying, "is it safe to come out now?"

ryans > One of our many birdhouses as seen through the frosty pines in our backyard. The "hoar frost," as it is called, results from moisture-saturated air, temps below 32F and a slight wind. Conditions must be surprisingly constant and stable for such frost to exist and we had it for three days!

ryans > You can tell which way the wind was blowing by the direction of the frost crystals-- a close-up of a bush that the week earlier was breaking bud until the pause button (cold) was hit.

ryans > Two crocuses (croci?) that didn't get the memo; Spring would be late this year.

ryans > Florsythia (not sure on the spelling) blooms in early spring and often sees such weather-- so it made it through the cold snap without any issues.

ryans > Permafrost! Not really, just my grass that was trying to come out of dormacy, forced back to sleep by lots of continually falling ice.

ryans > Suspension-- a daffodil that is frozen in time-- the ice perfectly suspended its blooming-- it continues to bloom, without ice, in our backyard.

ryans > A bull elk sticks his tongue out to catch some snowflakes on a nature preserve in Alaska. His women are busy eating up some grass before the snow covers everything!

ryans > Take on my farm in Pennsylvania during Christmas time, 2001. I had arrived home that day and then the snow began!

ryans > Just as it says--winter solstice-- take just North of San Fransisco, Christmas time, 2003.

ryans > Ever wonder what the inside of a snow drift looked like? Now you know! This thing grew all day long during Dec 20 2006ths Blizzard here in Colorado. It is still snowing as I type this, but the total so far is roughly 18 inches, with very bad winds. Denver got it worse and areas like Boulder CO got over 3 feet! Seems the eskimoes were right-- there are a lot of different kinds of snow-- as seen here in these rings.

ryans > Close-up of Picotee-- this flower reached a height of 3 feet on its stalk and bloomed over 8 inches wide before it crumbled under its own weight.

Ever wonder what the inside of a snow drift looked like? Now you know! This thing grew all day long during Dec 20 2006ths Blizzard here in Colorado. It is still snowing as I type this, but the total so far is roughly 18 inches, with very bad winds. Denver got it worse and areas like Boulder CO got over 3 feet! Seems the eskimoes were right-- there are a lot of different kinds of snow-- as seen here in these rings.