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Old 02-10-2013, 05:19 PM   #1
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February 10, 2013: Frost Flowers

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Gun Lake in British Columbia,Canada - frost flowers.

When these photographs were taken "the air was extremely cold and extremely dry, colder than the ocean surface. When the air gets that different from the sea, the dryness pulls moisture off little bumps in the ice, bits of ice vaporize, the air gets humid - but only for a while. The cold makes water vapor heavy. The air wants to release that excess weight, so crystal by crystal, air turns back into ice, creating delicate, feathery tendrils that reach sometimes two, three inches high, like giant snowflakes. The sea, literally, blossoms."

Photographer: Michelle Nortje www.southchilcotin.ca
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Old 02-10-2013, 07:33 PM   #2
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That's amazing
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Old 02-10-2013, 08:16 PM   #3
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Beautiful.
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Old 02-10-2013, 08:52 PM   #4
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Gun Lake in British Columbia,Canada - frost flowers.

When these photographs were taken "the air was extremely cold and extremely dry, colder than the ocean surface. When the air gets that different from the sea, the dryness pulls moisture off little bumps in the ice, bits of ice vaporize, the air gets humid - but only for a while. The cold makes water vapor heavy. The air wants to release that excess weight, so crystal by crystal, air turns back into ice, creating delicate, feathery tendrils that reach sometimes two, three inches high, like giant snowflakes. The sea, literally, blossoms."
Those are cool, but I don't understand the ocean and sea references, in the quote. Gun Lake is almost 3,000 ft above sea level.
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Old 02-10-2013, 09:07 PM   #5
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It would be awesome to be the size of a mouse in a miniature canoe and explore those.
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That's so awesome! Amazing. I never could have imagined something like that could happen and look so uniform.
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It would be awesome to be the size of a mouse in a miniature canoe.
That's all you need to say.
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Old 02-11-2013, 05:34 AM   #8
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Wow.
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Old 02-11-2013, 07:21 AM   #9
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NPR apparently did a bit on this recently. I never heard of these things. Amazing.
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Old 02-11-2013, 09:41 AM   #10
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That's all you need to say.
Do you mean I had you at miniature canoe?
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Old 02-11-2013, 09:47 AM   #11
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You had me at mouse, you saucy whatsit.
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Old 02-11-2013, 08:06 PM   #13
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Old 02-11-2013, 08:30 PM   #14
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We're one "rosebud" comment away from a circular thread drift.
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Old 02-11-2013, 09:42 PM   #15
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Very very cool, Robert Frost.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two streams converged in a pond, and I—
I took the one more frozen,
And that has made all the difference
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