Hoar frost is so beautiful! It turns our world into a magical looking place. We had several mornings that were so very beautiful last week, I had to share a few photos with you. By the way, the snow in my beard has nothing to do with the frost, it’s just another problem girls with beards encounter.
This is a photo of our lilac tree out in front of our house. See all those pretty pieces of frost that formed on the branches?
Our hydrangeas look nice with the hoar frost too! What is this special frost, and what causes it? It is the deposit of ice crystals on objects such as grass blades, tree branches, or leaves. It is formed by the condensation of water vapor to ice at temperatures below freezing, and occurs when air is brought to its frost point by cooling.
Here are some more pretty branches covered in the frost. The bummer is, it does go away as soon as the sun comes out.
I saved my favorite photo for last. The red berries with the frost are so “holidays”, don’t you think? I wish we could capture the big picture of all the items covered in the frost, but it doesn’t look the same in a big photo as it does with our eyes.
Now, sadly, the sun is out, the temperatures have gotten too warm, and even our snow is melting. Someone please send us some cold air and snow. We don’t want a warm winter here!
Our friends at Living Laughing and Barking in Our Backyard is hosting a nature Friday blog hop for the winter. I think this frosty posts fits right in with the theme. Stop by and visit some of the other blogs in the hop.
Those frosty things sure do look pretty and those photos were amazing! Have a fun Friday!!!
Thank you. It makes a magical world out of ordinary.
Oh my goodness – you look some amazing photos of the hoar frost. It is hard to photograph (we get it here around 5X per winter or so). I LOVE the photo with the red berries!
Our photographer says it is hard to capture the actual beauty of it, as it is so amazing, but those berries are the absolute best. We wish they would stay like that all winter.
I can send you lots of rain but no snow. It’s 61 degrees in New York
Oh deer, that is way too warm. We had some rain yesterday and it made my mom a bit crabby.
that looks like the kingdom of da snow queen… but there is a lot of beauty in that frozen things ,O)
We think every season has its own beauty.
Thank you for sharing the beauty of my birth state Minnesnowta with me. Hoar frost will never happen in Florida. Have a beautiful weekend. XOXO, Sparkle
I hope it doesn’t happen in Florida! I got a package yesterday, but Mom hasn’t let me open it yet 🙂
So pretty! And yes, that last photo with the berries is beautiful.
The bright red with the frost makes a beautiful combination, especially at Christmas time.
The hoar frost is SO pretty! The berries photo is definitely my favorite. I wonder if we’ll end up with some of that when our rain stops and things freeze again. We’re not happy about this warm spell either, and the rain is washing all of our snow away! All that will be left behind will be ice, and there’s nothing good about that. We’ll all hope Santa brings back some winter and snow for us!
We have melted snow that is now ice, and it is hovering around freezing making it a real disaster. Such a bummer!
Phenomenal <3
Thank you.
Your photos are just gorgeous and I so understand about girls and their beards!
Being a girl with a beard is not easy, right?
beautiful hoarfrost photos!! Glad you werer up before the sun melted them
Mom rolls us out onto the sidewalks at about 6 am, so we don’t miss much around here.
Pretty pictures! We are in a wet season here in California. No snow in our area – evvvver!
Wet is such a mess! We love the snow and frost. Sometimes even our furs are frosted.
thank you for the beautiful photos of Hoar frost. I have heard of it but never seen it in person.
ONce when were at the NC mtns in December we awoke to see several of the distant hills were all white on one side. The inn keeper told us it was Hoar Frost.
Hugs Cecilia
It truly is a beautiful site.
leave it to you to know the name of that frost! I never thought it even HAD a name! You are so stinkin’ knowledgeable about so much! xoxo
Mom says I’m her little Einstein. Smart and talented 🙂
Pawsitively beautiful ❄️
Happy Howlidays ☃️?
?nose nudges?
Thank you. Happy Howlidays to you too!
Wow!! Hoar Frost is soooooo pretty!!!! Such beautiful pictures too!
It is so beautiful in person when everywhere you look is frosted, but we couldn’t capture that feeling with the camera.
Some really great shots of that frost. Beautiful.
Have a fabulous day and weekend, and I hope you have a cold and white Christmas. ♥
Thank you. Christmas isn’t going to be too cold, and no new snow, but maybe later in the week. Paws crossed.
So beautiful!
It is so amazing to see.
Wow! That is simply gorgeous. I’ve never heard of or seen hoar frost before.
You have missed out. Mom says it makes everything look like a fairytale world.
Beautiful photos.
Thank you.
It’s so pretty and I never knew it had a special name. We are getting (mostly) cold this winter, but so far very little snow. We are with you, send us some snow!
We keep getting days that are 40 degrees, things melt, ice forms and it gets cold again. Not nice!