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Frost and flowers

20 Sunday Nov 2022

Posted by sconzani in autumn, flowers, wildflowers

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autumn colour, autumn wildflowers, British wildflowers, Cosmeston Lakes Country Park, frost, frosty leaves

Yesterday saw our first real frost of the season, with the ground crunchy and vegetation covered in a sparkling layer of ice crystals.

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Despite these signs of the cooler weather to come, there were still plenty of wildflowers in bloom so, as I meandered up and down the east and west paddocks at Cosmeston Lakes Country Park, I photographed those I found: Blue fleabane; Bramble; both Creeping and Meadow buttercups; the ubiquitous Daisy and Dandelion; one or two Devil’s-bit scabious and Flax flowers hanging on in the more sheltered spots; Wild carrot enjoying a second flowering; and Yellow-wort, whose little bursts of bright sunshine yellow dotted much of the west paddock.

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Frosty

12 Wednesday Jan 2022

Posted by sconzani in weather, winter

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frost, frost on plants, frosty leaves, ice on plants

It felt like proper winter this morning, with a hard frost that left everything covered in tiny shards of ice that sparkled with miniature rainbows when the sun caught them.

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18/366 Crisp

18 Saturday Jan 2020

Posted by sconzani in leaves, nature, plants, weather

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frost, frosty leaves

It was minus 2°C this morning, the first time we’ve seen frost this year – indeed, for many weeks – so, of course, I went looking for signs of the touch of Jack Frost’s crisp finger on the vegetation. Here’s what I found …

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This crisp winter air

09 Tuesday Jan 2018

Posted by sconzani in leaves, nature, weather, winter

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fire of the frost, frost, frosty leaves, ice, winter weather

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‘It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.’ ~ John Burroughs (1837-1921), Winter Sunshine, 1875

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