More Frosty Trees

Just a few more pix of frosty trees from Tuesday morning for you today.

Let's start with that big beautiful elm that somehow stays alive, that we can see out our back windows, across the road from our place.

When I drove around on the road and got closer to eliminate the hydro lines, it was looking stunning against the sky.

And right here in our own loop, these are two of my favourite maples; they look great in early October colours, but today the frost just caught the top branches.

Likewise these two much bigger old maples around the corner on a neighbour's front lawn.  These look like random trees on a lawn, but if you check out the air photo, you'll find that they're old trees that once stood in the fencerow that used to mark the boundary between two farms.

I turned around from that picture and got a very different view of the frost, with a tree large enough to hide the camera lens behind.

Hoarfrost brings such beautiy, even though it's such an ephemeral thing.  Two hours later it was gone.

I'll leave you with one more frosty treetop.  Don't expect photos like this very often during the winter!  Blue skies are uncommon, and hoarfrost like this only happens once or twice a year.

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The temperature has risen today, creeping above freezing, leaving the roads very sloppy.  I'd far rather have it below freezing; loose slush on the roads is a lot less safe for driving than simply snow on the roads.  Tonight we may get freezing rain, and simple rain tomorrow - but next week it's supposed to get colder and snow some more.  Perhaps finally the cross-country skiing will get started.  Didn't go far today; been too busy the rest of the week!