Frost Flowers

Our temperature dropped down into the low 20′s last night so I thought our area would be ripe for frost flowers (first freeze of the season, after having had some rain this week. Sure enough there were a bunch of them – a few right in our back yard! They are very rare and short-lived and a real cool phenomenon of nature. Frost Flowers on Wikipedia

The last time we saw frost flowers around here was in December 2004: Christmas Eve 2004 Frost Flowers.

Here are some pictures:

Frost Flowers in our back yard
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3 thoughts on “Frost Flowers”

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Derick Sager
December 5, 2009 at 10:19 pm

I love these flowers. Great pics.


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Bill May
December 6, 2009 at 8:14 am

Really nice photo’s, thanks for posting them.


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James Culbertson
December 6, 2009 at 10:50 am

Thanks for the positive comments. It was fun searching for these flowers.