Frost, Snow and Ice

We go for a walk nearly every day and often along the lane behind our house. The lane runs through some farm land used mainly for feeding cattle and this was one of the fence posts there on a frosty morning.

We live near a lake and have access to a picnic area for residents. This was the chain of a swing there on a frosty morning.

Now we are getting snow and more snow but earlier in the winter we had a lot of freezing fog and ice and these photos were taken then, this of a barbed wire fence along the lane behind our house. I have no idea why the frost formed only on the barbs and not on the rest of the wire.

Various species of Mahonia (Sea Grape) are native to our area and this one, covered with ice after a January ice storm, was photographed in the woods near our home.

We had an ice storm in January, not enough ice to do much damage but enough to provide some great photos. This is a Blue Spruce in a neighbors yard.

Will winter never end? We had several more inches of snow last night and have had record amounts for the month. We still have several feet on the ground and little has melted. It seems as though winter will never be over. This photo of ice on the needles of a Ponderosa Pine tree was taken after an ice storm in January as were the insets. I've added this to the group, Pictures for Pam, because I remember the ice storm that Pam went through last year. Ours was nothing like that and there was very little damage either to trees or power lines. Hope you are keeping your spirits up, Pam, and continuing with the courage and perseverance I know you possess.

The hoarfrost on these Spruce trees was so heavy after a night of freezing fog that the trees themselves were hardly visible.

Not a black and white photo but a photo taken after a night of freezing fog. These evergreens were almost completely covered by hoarfrost.

This is not a monochrome photo, though it looks it, but a photo taken on a day of freezing fog in January. The evergreens were so covered with rime that the green of the needles wasn't even visible and the area they were growing in looked like something out of a fantasy. Pam said yesterday that she had had two falls recently. Pam, we think of you every day and pray you may persevere and be strong during a very difficult time. Few of us can imagine what you are going through but we are all with you in these physical and mental struggles.