Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Frosty foliage and flowers

I took these photos two and a half weeks ago! Then my laptop died and I kind of forgot about them, oops!

The morning after I took my Frozen Desert photos there was still a lot of humidity in the air, combine that with freezing temperatures and we had a beautiful frost! In this photo in particular the frost looks more like sugar crystals than ice crystals. Some of my Japanese maple leaves fell down and landed on my mums, I thought it was quite pretty.

 

 

 

 

Here's a frosty echinecea seed head with just a few petals left.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's the same red rose that you saw in the previous post topped with snow.

 

 

 

These are my neighbors' red maple leaves that blew into our yard! I guess I can't complain too much cuz I took some nice photos of them, and later I used them to mulch some of my flower beds.

 

 

 

 

I've noticed that water on the back side of red maple leaves bead up, look out how the beads froze in this photo! Cool, yes?

 

 

 

 

Lastly, here's some Japanese maple leaves that had fallen on my sweet alyssum. I thought about using this image in my blog's title line/box, right under where it says "Amy's Ukalichick's Que Syrah, Syrah!" but above my greetin but not in the box that says, "Welcome to my site". Can anyone tell me how to do it? I haven't figured it out yet. EDIT: Never mind, I figured it out.

 

Frosty Japanese maple and alyssum with greeting

Thanks!

6 comments:

  1. Stunning once again Amy for an Aussie. Another look at how things freeze up and so pretty to see . You take gorgeous photos Amy.

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  2. Very nice - Even the Winter shows its beauty

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  3. Those are fabulous photos... I enjoyed them a lot! Thanks for sharing!

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  4. Oh those are pretty - a delightful look into a world I don't see in my warmer climate. Thank you, and thank you for the season's greetings as well. May you holiday season be full of joy and photo opportunities :)

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  5. Gorgeous photos AMy, I love all of them.
    Blessings and Merry Xmas to you Amy!

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  6. Amy these are so beautiful like icing sugar frosting. The colours too are just magic.

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