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Frozen roses

In spite of all the frost and snow we got in January, the sun was rather strong at times. Strong enough at least to melt quite a lot of the snow on our roof.
It seems the segments of our roof gutter don’t fit that tightly just above the roses. Thus, quite a lot of melt water dripped onto the roses, immediately freezing again in the cold air.

Here’s some impressions.

Without words. :)

roses 1

roses 2

roses 3

roses 4

roses 5

roses 6

roses 7

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11 Responses to “Frozen roses”

  1. pandora Says:
    March 18th, 2010 at 9:36 pm

    such beatiful and weird things, icicles :)

  2. Melantrys Says:
    March 18th, 2010 at 9:40 pm

    Indeed.

  3. Frans Says:
    March 18th, 2010 at 10:10 pm

    Very nice.

  4. Lynnette in Minnesota Says:
    March 24th, 2010 at 5:17 pm

    Beautiful. Have you ever seen frozen fog? That’s the only way I can think of to describe it. It blankets everything and you have this silvery crystalized look to the trees and bushes. It’s beautiful. I would have taken a picture the last time it happened, but you have to catch it before it melts and it happened on a workday, so no time. And never mind that I’d have to figure out how to upload it. :mutter:

    Wait, I found some pictures. They don’t do it justice though. :dream:

  5. David Says:
    March 28th, 2010 at 7:49 am

    Brrrr, I saw many icicles this winter! Happily, the weather is quite Spring-like now. :) Neat pictures though!

  6. JG Says:
    April 3rd, 2010 at 5:07 pm

    Fantastic pictures. You rarely see this here in Ireland.

  7. Melantrys Says:
    April 5th, 2010 at 10:27 am

    @ Pandora: Aye, beautiful, yet dangerous, for as beautiful as they are, the real thing (ice rain, not some meltwater dripping from the roof gutter…) can destroy trees.

    @ Melantrys: Indeed.

    I revised that. That was a bit on the short and boring side, wouldn’t you agree?

    @ Frans: See replies to Pan and myself.

    @ Lynnette: Hm, frozen fog sounds a lot more poetic than Rauhreif (And to all Germans who might pass through here and feel compelled to point out my spelling error: That was no error; I just don’t give a flying fuck about the stupid and half-thought-through spelling reform we had and continue spelling stuff the olde way, thank you very much.)

    @ David: Spring is playing silly buggers with us here. We had a few lovely days, and now we seem to be back to fall. Blegh.

    @JG: You rarely see this here in Ireland.

    Seriously? Or maybe you’re not going out enough during the cold season….? ;)

    Anyway, welcome. :)

  8. JG Says:
    April 5th, 2010 at 10:19 pm

    Haha.. no I really haven’t seen this kind of thing before!

  9. Melantrys Says:
    April 6th, 2010 at 12:32 am

    Hm, weird.

  10. JG Says:
    April 6th, 2010 at 1:11 am

    I’m used to that reaction. My girlfriend is German and she finds most things about Ireland amusing/weird! ;)

  11. Melantrys Says:
    April 6th, 2010 at 9:19 am

    :whistle:

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