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Our World Tuesday. Here's what our world looked like Jan. 1, 2012.
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| Snow |
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| Hoar frost |
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| Snow on the ground, hoar frost on the branches. |
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| Hoar frost, close-up. |
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| Snow on the evergreens, hoar frost on the deciduous trees. |
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© Photos above by Richard Schear, January 1, 2012 |
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| Wikipedia photo |
Hoar frost (also called
radiation frost or
hoarfrost or
pruina) refers to the white ice crystals, loosely deposited on the ground or exposed objects, that form on cold clear nights when heat losses into the open skies cause objects to become colder than the surrounding air. A related effect is
flood frost which occurs when air cooled by ground-level radiation losses travels downhill to form pockets of very cold air in depressions, valleys, and hollows. Hoar frost can form in these areas even when the air temperature a few feet above ground is well above freezing. Nonetheless the frost itself will be at or below the freezing temperature of water.
Wikipedia
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| The tracks of one deer across the snow in our cul-de-sac. |
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| Snow on my little Alberta Spruce outside my new window. |
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© Photos from my new window by Kay Davies, January 1, 2012 |
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| Hoar frost on the leafless trees and on the overhead wires. |
28 comments:
That could be here, except a cul de sac here is really trail end!! Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.
What gorgeous captures, Kay!! I do love hoar frost and the close-up is beautiful. Love the shot of all the trees together, too! So lovely against the blue skies! Hope your new year is off to a great start!
Sylvia
Crikey, that sure looks cold. Makes for gorgeous pics though.
The hoar frost looks beautiful but very cold. I hope you are staying warm. Lovely photos, Happy New year!
It looks like a picture post card where you are, Kay! Formations of hoar frost are so pretty they sometimes look like flowers … although much less friendly to the touch, I’m sure. Your window is providing great opportunities for photgraphs. I especially like the one where frost sits like fluffy white caps on the fruit. :)
Kay, what fabulous photos! I love the close-ups.
Happy 2012!
~Antonette
wow, what wonderful pictures!
It makes everything appear so magical - we are suffering under 40*C so any pics wich are snowy and frosty are a welcome sight
Glorious photos! Here it is very dark out, the low gray sky shutting out all light. Rain alternating on and off. Your blue sky looks marvellous.
Stunning pix -- and I learned what hoarfrost is (kinda' knew the word from crosswords and reading but didn't REALLY know)-- thanks to you and Mr Wiki!)
So much like greeting card pictures.
Stay warm!
Wonderful winter shots. So much snow.
The hoar frost is very beautiful. I love your winter wonderland shots. Happy New Year.
Beautiful pics. My OWT is up too.
Happy New Year from New Zealand.
It's beautiful, but probably hard to get around in. I hate driving in snow and ice. Hoar frost is so interesting. It makes the deciduous trees even more beautiful than the evergreens. Happy belated New Years! - Margy
Beautiful, Kay. Hoar frost is not a common occurrence in the places I have lived. In fact, I only saw it once when we lived in Bishop. Your pictures are magic.
My archives are running low and I need to get out for some photography now that the holidays are over and my family has gone home.
It looks so cold...but the photos are so beautiful!
Happy New Year, Kay, Dick and Lindy! What beautiful photos, Kay. I hope you and Lindy are snuggling indoors while this weather pretties up the countryside. Blessings Jo
Wow.. what gorgeous shots! You have a real winter! Still waiting for ours...
Happy New Year Kay to you and yours. The snow and the frost look beautiful but I hate driving in it so much that it spoils the beauty of it for me. We have been lucky so far with really mild temperatures, but I get the feeling that this cold is just around the corner xxx Big kiss for Lindy from Alfie X
Oh Kay! How beautiful! It is like a fairy tale world! We had hoar frost some years ago and the world looked different and better! Love to the two of you from your Dutch friend!
The countryside looks like a fairyland! I imagine it is very cold, but it's so pretty!
A special Happy New Year wish for you!!
I love those pictures, but they remind me of why we head south at this time of the year.
Thanks so much for keeping in touch and enjoying my paintings.
Your pictures are beautiful, love the cobweb ! we are far away from snow, it will probably arrive in summer ! For the moment we have 11 to 12 °C ! the warmest winter since 1873 !!
Such beauty!! Looks mighty cold, though!
I don't think I've ever seen hoarfrost (maybe I did when I was a child, growing up in Illinois, but if so I don't remember.) At any rate, it is absolutely magical - especially that spiderweb. It does look very cold there, though, and since I am freezing today here in Florida, where the temps have dropped to only 40 degrees F, I think I'm happy to admire hoarfrost from a distance!
The frost makings everything look frozen in time! It's stunning with the bright sunshine. Happy new year to you and I hope this year brings you further adventures both near and far.
I'm not a fan of snow, but I love how pretty it is! Great photos. My favourite is the second picture... hoar frost with the blue sky above... great contrast! I am from BC and have only been to Alberta in the winter one time, except it was a Chinook! So I have yet to experience an Albertan winter.
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