February 10, 2013: Frost Flowers

ZenGum · 02-10-2013, 05:19 PM

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Gun Lake in British Columbia,Canada - frost flowers.

When these photographs were taken "the air was extremely cold and extremely dry, colder than the ocean surface. When the air gets that different from the sea, the dryness pulls moisture off little bumps in the ice, bits of ice vaporize, the air gets humid - but only for a while. The cold makes water vapor heavy. The air wants to release that excess weight, so crystal by crystal, air turns back into ice, creating delicate, feathery tendrils that reach sometimes two, three inches high, like giant snowflakes. The sea, literally, blossoms."

Photographer: Michelle Nortje www.southchilcotin.ca

glatt · 02-10-2013, 07:33 PM

That's amazing

orthodoc · 02-10-2013, 08:16 PM

Beautiful.

xoxoxoBruce · 02-10-2013, 08:52 PM

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Gun Lake in British Columbia,Canada - frost flowers.

When these photographs were taken "the air was extremely cold and extremely dry, colder than the ocean surface. When the air gets that different from the sea, the dryness pulls moisture off little bumps in the ice, bits of ice vaporize, the air gets humid - but only for a while. The cold makes water vapor heavy. The air wants to release that excess weight, so crystal by crystal, air turns back into ice, creating delicate, feathery tendrils that reach sometimes two, three inches high, like giant snowflakes. The sea, literally, blossoms."

Those are cool, but I don't understand the ocean and sea references, in the quote. Gun Lake is almost 3,000 ft above sea level.

footfootfoot · 02-10-2013, 09:07 PM

It would be awesome to be the size of a mouse in a miniature canoe and explore those.

Sundae · 02-11-2013, 04:24 AM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

It would be awesome to be the size of a mouse in a miniature canoe.

That's all you need to say.

Griff · 02-11-2013, 05:34 AM

Wow.

glatt · 02-11-2013, 07:21 AM

NPR apparently did a bit on this recently. I never heard of these things. Amazing.

footfootfoot · 02-11-2013, 09:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Sundae

That's all you need to say.

Do you mean I had you at miniature canoe?

Aliantha · 02-10-2013, 09:18 PM

That's so awesome! Amazing. I never could have imagined something like that could happen and look so uniform.

Sundae · 02-11-2013, 09:47 AM

You had me at mouse, you saucy whatsit.

ZenGum · 02-11-2013, 06:33 PM

All the ladies like the little man in a boat.

Griff · 02-11-2013, 08:06 PM

If you're going up the canal you gots to pay the gondolier.

ZenGum · 02-11-2013, 08:30 PM

We're one "rosebud" comment away from a circular thread drift.

footfootfoot · 02-11-2013, 09:42 PM

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two streams converged in a pond, and I—
I took the one more frozen,
And that has made all the difference

02-10-2013, 08:16 PM	#3
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	Beautiful. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

02-10-2013, 09:07 PM	#5
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	It would be awesome to be the size of a mouse in a miniature canoe and explore those. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

02-11-2013, 05:34 AM	#7
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Wow. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

02-10-2013, 09:18 PM	#10
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	That's so awesome! Amazing. I never could have imagined something like that could happen and look so uniform. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

02-11-2013, 09:47 AM	#11
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	You had me at mouse, you saucy whatsit. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

02-10-2013, 07:33 PM	#2
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	That's amazing

02-11-2013, 07:21 AM	#8
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	NPR apparently did a bit on this recently. I never heard of these things. Amazing.

02-11-2013, 06:33 PM	#12
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	All the ladies like the little man in a boat. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

02-11-2013, 08:06 PM	#13
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	If you're going up the canal you gots to pay the gondolier. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

02-11-2013, 08:30 PM	#14
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	We're one "rosebud" comment away from a circular thread drift. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

02-11-2013, 09:42 PM	#15
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Very very cool, Robert Frost. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two streams converged in a pond, and I— I took the one more frozen, And that has made all the difference __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

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