Category: snow

There something quite magical about large , fluffy flakes of snow silently descending during a still winter night.  Delicate crystals grab hold of each other and cling to anything and everything. Just outside my front door, knobs on the barren branches of the bridal spirea become temporarily adorned.

 

The flakes were laying so precariously, that while I dashed inside to grab a extension tube for my lense, gravity drew them to the ground!
Having shot at a rather high resolution, I was able to crop the image to show more detail. That’s when I noticed the single flake just below and behind the cluster pair.
Precarious indeed!

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During the winter months, I deliberately park my vehicle with the windshield facing the sun so the direct sunlight causes frost and snow, water in its solid state, to become a vapour and I don’t have to scrape the windows. Once temperatures rise to plus Celsius numbers, what was solid becomes liquid. Yay, Spring is on its way!

The properties of snow, when it falls, can be very different depending on temperature and humidity. Once on the ground, it changes again.

The transformation creates very odd textures and shapes. This worm-looking thing briefly hung on the side of the hammock stand.
Ah, hammock…think summer!