66/365: "The buttercups, bright-eyed and bold, Held up their chalices of gold, To catch the sunshine and the dew." ~ Julia C. R. Dorr

Steve and I are trying to make an effort to get to bed earlier, and even though I didn't sleep well, I still woke up at just before 8am and looked outside to see the world covered with frost and gleaming in the bright morning sunshine! Oh YAY!!! I couldn't get dressed fast enough! I bundled up and bounced out the door, intent on FROSTED BUTTERCUPS!! But the second I left the house, I slammed on the brakes...HOLY SPARKLING DROPLETS EVERYWHERE, BATMAN!! Down I dropped and got dozens of totally insane frosty droplet pictures! I went around the meadow and got lots of other pictures before heading up to the hillside where I found what I was intent on! This Buttercup is bristling with just-melted frost, and I couldn't resist making it my pick of the day. I got some other pictures with frost on the blossoms, and I have one to show below!

Julia Caroline (Ripley) Dorr (1825–1913) was an American author who published both prose and poetry. She was born at Charleston, South Carolina, but moved early in her life to New York City, then to Rutland, Vermont. There she married Hon. Seneca M. Dorr. Her earliest published writings appeared in 1848. Mrs. Dorr is best known, however, for volumes of thoughtful verse. A collected edition of her poems appeared in 1892. Wkipedia: Julia Caroline Dorr