Frost

[IPT]

I woke up yesterday morning and here we are on the 2nd of may and I had FROST on my windows! Well, it is Alaska of course but good Lord, bring on the spring man, bring it on.... It reminded me of some of the wild frost patterns I saw this winter though. Quite amazing stuff really.

 

[DEEC77]

Very nice!

~Dee~

 

[Recty]

Pretty cool, it does seem like we have snow a little bit later than usual... I'm down right in the middle of Anchorage and we've been having 50 degree days but there is still some snow on the ground. Not much, but it's still there. It must be getting cold at night still, enough that it stops melting and refreezes.

Anyway, nice pictures Makes me a little cold just looking at it.

 

[BlueCorn]

Very cool, Louis. I love the second one.

Nothing like you guys get up there but we actually had some snow flurries here in ABQ on Sunday. I had to cover the garden and everything. The neighbor didn't and some of her garden froze.

 

[swjim]

That second one is incredible!

 

[IPT]

Yeah, someone just told me that you shouldn't put plants outside until the Birch Tree Leaves are the size of a squirrels ear! No such wisdoms as that down by you Doug? (LOL). Still I see some plants sprouting some green leaves here and there. I hope they make it.

Have any of you guys read “The hidden messages in water” or seen the movie “What the Bleep do we know?!”? They talk about the impact our thoughts and intentions have on water. Specifically how the ice crystals are formed in beautiful patterns when subjected to good thoughts and unorganized messes when exposed to bad or ugly thoughts. Well, looks like my sleeping brain is in a pretty positive place, at least this winter it was. The last pattern was really amazing how it formed all these swirls and intricate arches. I actually never saw anything quite like it. That one happened to be in the window over my bed. Lucky me I guess, on several counts (except that it was a broken seal on a double paned window that let the moisture in in the first place!). It was probably happy thoughts of me setting up my tripod to take more frost images that made it "happy". However it went down, it was cool, and it did make me happy and quite astonished.

 

[Recty]

All those swirls and whirls are telling you that you're going to have an early onset of alzheimer's... sorry bud.

 

[Misled]

Very beautiful Louis. Really looks like plants growing. I guess you can take some comfort in that!!!

 

[IPT]

ha, plants growing and Alzheimers...I guess those plants you see Jesse must be weeds or dust bunnies if Grant is right (LOL).

I'll have to look back and see if I have any images of it from a pulled back perspective. Some of it actually looked like big feathers, it was wild. It was hard to photograph though. The background behind it alternated between dark trees and bright openings and there was dirt on the window (and at 30ft off the ground I couldn't get to it!) in all the wrong places.