We take our garden “blooms” where we can in winter. No, I’m not talking flowers. Pollinators, please stay tucked in your nests, we’re not ready for you yet.
I was captivated by these ice covered branches on a recent walk in Ashbridges Bay Park.
This is a different sort of blooming, the cold, hard, icy kind.
This one looked to me like a little spiky flower that had grown among the rocks. And, while they’re not flowers, in some ways, these ice formations on trees, shrubs and rocks on the shore of Lake Ontario are just as spectacular, especially if you come upon them in the hour before the sun goes down.
These rocks covered in ice remind me of some kind of weird gel-covered dessert.
We still have a few more weeks before the snowdrops and crocuses appear, so seeing what nature dishes up all on her own is a short-lived winter joy.
Bare brown branches that I’ve passed by without noticing for months are rendered extraordinary and beautiful with a sheer coating of ice and frozen stalagtites. They don’t last, but while they’re there, what a treat.
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Great photos! They almost make me appreciate winter.
The composition and light in your photos is really inspiring. Making lemonade from lemons, you are! I am looking forward to those crocuses as well but I don't suppose I'll see them for another couple of months.
Christine in Alaska
They're truly beautiful.
Hang on; spring is really just around the corner.
I've never seen anything like that. The nearest I've come across is hoar frost (but that is more delicate) and icicles on waterfalls; never icicles looking just like over-the-top Christmas Tree decorations for which they were, presumably, the inspiration. Interesting that other plants near it have not been festooned in this way.
Esther
Wow those photos are gorgeous, nicely done by both you and mother nature.
Winter has it's own beauty, doesn't it.
How blue is that!
And such a magnificent display of Nature art.Sad in a way that it is so fugitive. I'm glad you captured it.
Very pretty! The light is really wonderful in these photos….spring is definitely bringing its glow back to us 🙂
Your photographs are wonderful. Love the icicles on the branches. Winter always looks better when I'm sitting in the warm indorros.
A definite beauty when icicles hang that way, decorating the bare trees