Photo of the Week – February 11, 2016

I have a few leftover photos to share today.

Don’t take that the wrong way.  I like these photos, but I couldn’t fit them, thematically, into either of my previous posts on the recent blizzard.  Instead, I’m putting them into their own category: photos of frost after a blizzard.  These are not photos that show the depth of the snow, the wind-blown drifts or patterns in the snow, or anything about the ecological impacts of the blizzard.  They’re just photos of frosty plants that happen to be in deep snow with cool drifts (not shown).  I hope you enjoy them.

Frost on grass

Frost on grass.

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Frost on goldenrod.

Round-headed lespedeza with frost (and ice).

Round-headed lespedeza with frost (and ice).

Have a great weekend.

Photo of the Week – January 7, 2016

Earlier this week, we had a foggy and frosty day.  When the clouds finally started to thin, I popped across town to Lincoln Creek Prairie to see if I could get some photographs of the frost.  Here are a few images I came back with.

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Frosty Lincoln Creek Prairie earlier this week.  Aurora, Nebraska.

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Frost on stiff sunflower (Helianthus pauciflorus).

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Tall thistle (Cirsium altissimum).

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Another stiff sunflower.  Sunflowers seem to display frost very attractively.

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See what I mean?  Maximilian sunflower this time (Helianthus maximiliani).