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aferguson.bsky.social
Frost flowers, many origins vs one.
#photography #frostflowers #ice #frost
A frost flower has spread out from three sides of the stem of a dittany plant in swoops and swirls and even a small curl encircling the stem. This frost flower has made a single elegant circle from one spot on the dittany plant.
January 8, 2026 at 1:09 PM
faint1.bsky.social
forest of blue lakes of labium
held a meeting of union of skydivers
one lake of blue waves
of the forest of the blue lakes of labium
was full of frostflowers on its skin
frozen upon slow waves
of amassed drowned sadness
that had sealed many blue lips
now to be split by skates
dashing flowers apart
January 2, 2026 at 12:30 AM
jimferguson.bsky.social
#FrostFlowerFriday The delicacy of these ribbons of ice is my favorite feature of winter. #photography #frostflowers #B&W #macro #winter #nature
This black and white photo of a frost flower shows the delicate curves of these gifts of early winter. I shot this with a 105mm macro lens with a nearly wide open apperture. This allowed me to keep the edge that I wanted in focus and blur the rest of the frost flower.
December 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
jimferguson.bsky.social
#frostflowers try their hands (What hands?) at tying bows and ribbons #photography #nature #winter
Ice ribbons from a dittany stem produce shapes that resemble bows if you use your imagination.
December 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
jimferguson.bsky.social
It's #FrostFlowerFriday. The variety of shapes of frost flowers amazes me. #photography #frostflowers #winter #B&W #crystallofolia
This is a pinwheel shaped frost flower photo that I converted to black and white. The light was dull and it was in a deep shadow, but the shape was interesting to me.
December 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Part of the fun of photographing #frostflowers is deciding how to take the shot -- so many sides and angles. They can look very different from different perspectives. For example, these two shots of one frost flower.
#photography #winter #Indiana
This frost flower is seen from the top and one side with an "arm" across its top and and a swirling "skirt" at the bottom with a grooved vertical shaft. From this angle, the "arm" is on the left side, the shaft and skirt aren't visible. Instead there is a "wall" with two deep curves protruding from it.
December 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
jimferguson.bsky.social
The #FrostFlowerFriday theme continues. Frost flowers have a number of names: frost faces, ice castles, ice blossoms, or the fancy one #crystallofolia. #photography #dittany #nature #frostflowers
This frost flower is one of the more symmetrical ice ribbons that dittany, water, and freezing temperatures produce. The brown stem in the middle of the photo is the plant that the water squeezed out of as it froze. I never know where I am going to see a frost flower, but the common dittany likes to grow at the edges of opennings in the woods. I found this one alongside our road on the way to bring back the trash can.
December 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
jimferguson.bsky.social
It's #FrostFlowerFriday. I think this one looks like it is holding out its skirt for you to admire. #photography #plants #nature #winter #ice #frostflowers
A ribbon of ice has formed on a dittany stem.
December 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Two #frostflowers from the first batch of the season.
#photography #winter #frost #ice
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A tall, swirling frost flower is partially transparent where it is melting. In my area, the dittany plant can form frost flowers when the temperatures are below freezing overnight but the ground is not already frozen. The cold temperatures cause liquid in the stem of the dittany to expand, causing cracks to form along the length of the stem. Water is then forced out throw the cracks and freezes upon contact with the air. As more water is drawn through the cracks it pushes the thin ice layers further from the stem creating the 'flower'. This frost flower has a window in it that lets you see a structure within it.
December 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
jimferguson.bsky.social
Here's another frost flower. I cropped this photo a lot to show the streaky patterns in the icy ribbons. The cropping made the background grainy. The actual frost flower was only about 2 inches (5 cm) tall. #photography #frostflowers #nature
White ribbon-like ice that has been extruded from the stem of a dittany plant makes an interesting and fragile natural sculpture on the forest floor. The ice that had been in sunlight was beginning to melt and was clear.
November 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
anaturejournal.bsky.social
Frost flowers, a phenomenon that occurs this time of year for certain plants when there’s (1) freezing air and (2) moist but not frozen soil. Salvia coccinea photographed.
The base of Salvia coccinea stems where water in the stems escape and form intricate white ice structures commonly called frost flowers due to freezing air. frostflowers jackfrost winteriscoming
November 30, 2025 at 2:02 AM
jimferguson.bsky.social
The first frost flowers that I've seen this season showed up in the woods yesterday. #photography #frostflowers #nature
The white ribbon-like flower on the stem of a dead plant is not a flower at all or a fungus. Frost flowers are icy structures that emerge from the stalks of thin stemmed plants. The water in the plant is forced out of the plants in these fragile sheets. Like snowflakes, frost flowers are infinite in variety. The ones in our area mostly emerge from dittany (Cunila origanoides).
November 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
humanwolf.bsky.social
apnews.com/article/fros...
As the magic of #Winter approaches us, be looking for
#FrostFlowers❄️🥶
#TTDS
With one touch, they vanish. Meet the delicate, icy wonders called frost flowers
The first major blast of wintry weather in the U.S. this week brought snow, frigid temperatures and in some places something a little more magical: Frost flowers.
apnews.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
thelolgic.bsky.social
First freeze created frost flowers - rare ice ribbons on plant stems that last hours before melting.

Need perfect conditions, disintegrate at touch. Found across Eastern U.S.

Each unique, gone for a year.

#FrostFlowers #WINTER #Missouri #Tennessee #indiana #FirstFreeze #USA #TheLolgic
November 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
The Friday Digital Archive Dive is uncertain about frost flowers this year (drought, unseasonably warm) so is picking some from the many in the archive (see 1st ALT image for how they are formed).
Taken #OnThisDay November 14, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2020
#photography #frostflowers #ice #frost
Two frost flowers close together, both with swirls and ripples. In my area, the dittany plant can form frost flowers when the temperatures are below freezing overnight but the ground is not already frozen. The cold temperatures cause liquid in the stem of the dittany to expand, causing cracks to form along the length of the stem. Water is then forced out throw the cracks and freezes upon contact with the air. As more water is drawn through the cracks it pushes the thin ice layers further from the stem creating the 'flower'. A tall frost flower with two 'wings' and a swirling ribbon. A frost flower with small ripples, curves, and a solitary curved ribbon at the bottom. A melting frost flower is almost transparent.
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
teralita.bsky.social
Frost Flowers
#frostflowers
Frost flower on the forest floor - looks like soft serve ice cream Frost flower on the forest floor - looks like seashell Frost flower on the forest floor - looks like glowing toilet paper Frost flower on the forest floor - looks like a white flower
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
bridal-resources.bsky.social
Frost flowers! Sometimes, when conditions are just right, frost makes lovely patterns on our back door window. Short-lived, but beautiful!
#winter #frost #frostflowers
Pretty patterns on the door window glass, made by frost on a chilly morning. We call them frost flowers. #canada #winter #frost
November 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
wdefaustenonek.bsky.social
Thanks to @wdefnews12.bsky.social viewer Jacqueline Glassford of the Cumberland Plateau area for a view of #frostpillars or #frostflowers... Thursday's @LangleyRoofing #WeatherWindow #PictureOfTheDay.

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Thanks to @WDEFNews12 viewer Jacqueline Glassford of the Cumberland Plateau area for a view of #frostpillars or #frostflowers... Thursday's @LangleyRoofing #WeatherWindow #PictureOfTheDay. Got #weatherpix to share? Go to wdef.com/weather
March 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
superdeluxe.bsky.social
this is such a cool theme!! 🥰 i tried to pick out pieces that most exude luxury, but of course they involve my favorite subjects ☺️
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Hrid from Fire Emblem Heroes as Erik, the Phantom of the Opera. He is holding his Angel of Music (Sky) close to him, pointing an icy dagger dangerously close to her neck. Sky appears to be reluctant, pulling his arm away from her neck. There is a blue candlelit ambience to the scene. Sky and Hrid from Fire Emblem Heroes in their wedding attire, exchanging their vows in a frozen wedding altar. Sky as the bride wears a glamorous white wedding dress adorned with long, graceful white feathers, gold and blue touches on her sleeves and boots. Hrid as the groom wears a gallant white tuxedo with a long cape, shoulder pad and boots similar to his original attire, with gold and blue touches to match his now-wife. Sky holds a bouquet of Sunflowers, Frostflowers (ice blue roses) and Lilies of the Valley and Hrid caresses his wife. The couple gaze lovingly into each other's eyes, ready to kiss. Bust-up painting of Nifl and Fjorm from Fire Emblem Heroes in their Ice Tribe outfits. Fjorm is in a light blue figure-skating outfit, taking the viewer by the hand (red glove). Nifl is in a lavenderish outfit, waving at the viewer. There are sparkles around her icicle ears and collar. Dreamy pastel background. Sky, Queen of Nifl. She wears a fluffy white cape with fur on the shoulders, high heels and a regal blue dress with gold touches, customary attire in Nifl. There are snowflake details on her collar and the bottom of her dress. The inside of her overskirt is like the night sky sprinkled with stars. Her head is adorned with a golden diadem and halo made of ice. Her silky, blonde hair reaches her hips. Queen Sky is smiling and blushing posing with her left hand close to her chest to show her wedding ring.
February 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
annakakalton.bsky.social
Good morning!
How are you holding up?
What are you up to today?

We finally had the conditions for good frost flowers (hair ice) Thursday night/Friday morning.
(thread)
#HairIce
#FrostFlowers
Pure white strands that look like hair "grow" in locks from a stick lying on a bed of moss
February 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
kikilappalainen.bsky.social
16.1.2024 ❄️🌞

Tänään #sää kuin marraskuussa.
Today the #Weather is like in November.

Mutta ei se haitanne.
But I don't mind it much. 😊🌧️

#photography #valokuvataivas #Helsinki #FrostFlowers
Kuurankukkia viime vuoden tammikuulta, oman kerrostaloasunnon ikkunasta. Frost flowers last year, seen in the window of our home.
January 30, 2025 at 8:17 AM
mercescent.bsky.social
Some quiet winter magic. ❄️ Frost flowers forming on Pluchea odorata—delicate, fleeting, and a reminder of nature’s artistry. #frostflowers #nature #winter
Frost flower ribbons on Pluchea odorata.
January 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Some #FrostFlowers that had ambitions for greatness but ended laying down on the job.

#photography #winter #ice

[Info on frost flowers in ALT for the 1st image]
In my area, the dittany plant can form frost flowers when the temperatures are below freezing overnight but the ground is not already frozen. The cold temperatures cause liquid in the stem of the dittany to expand, causing cracks to form along the length of the stem. Water is then forced out throw the cracks and freezes upon contact with the air. As more water is drawn through the cracks it pushes the thin ice layers further from the stem creating the 'flower'. This is frost flower has spread out along the ground like a long ribbon that has been dropped. This frost flower is actually two different frost flowers. One is in two separate pieces, the bottom one is an open oval, the top piece is a half curve. The other frost flower is in an almost closed wing formation. They are both lying on a bed of dead leaves. This is also two separate frost flowers, a low round one in front and a thin one going up the dittany stem in back with another piece at the bottom in a perpendicular shape with a large opening where it left and came back to the stem.
January 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
Frost flowers with swoops and curves.

[Info on how frost flowers are created in the 1st image's ALT]

#frostflowers #photography #winter
In my area, the dittany plant can form frost flowers when the temperatures are below freezing overnight but the ground is not already frozen. The cold temperatures cause liquid in the stem of the dittany to expand, causing cracks to form along the length of the stem. Water is then forced out throw the cracks and freezes upon contact with the air. As more water is drawn through the cracks it pushes the thin ice layers further from the stem creating the 'flower'. This frost flower is long with a 'crown' on the top that looks like small petals. The rest of the flower is is two curving sides. This frost flower is on a bed of moss that is covered in a dusting of snow. The frost flower is more horizontal than vertical and is a mass of curves. This frost flower is topped by one big curve and a small one. The rest of a one long curve.
January 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
aferguson.bsky.social
It hasn't been the best winter (by far) for frost flowers but happily they haven't been completely absent either.

#photography #ice #frostflowers

[more info in 1st ALT]
In my area, the dittany plant can form frost flowers when the temperatures are below freezing overnight but the ground is not already frozen. The cold temperatures cause liquid in the stem of the dittany to expand, causing cracks to form along the length of the stem. Water is then forced out throw the cracks and freezes upon contact with the air. As more water is drawn through the cracks it pushes the thin ice layers further from the stem creating the 'flower'. This frost flower is long, smooth at the top and curly at the bottom. The top has started to melt so that some of the ice is transparent. This frost flower is nestled on a bed of moss and moss sprouts. There is snow on the moss. There are three frost flowers in the photograph with once being entirely in focus and only the bottom of another one in focus. The focused frost flowers have curled and wavy edges. This frost flower is surrounded by dead leaves and blades of sedge, some of which are still green and some are brown. The frost has two curved wings coming out of each side of the stem and a third smaller curved wing that seems to be coming from behind.
January 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM