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!

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.

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!