BEAUTY OF THE MORNING FROST

A few hours ago, on the outskirts of Pula, I came across a lot of frost-covered plants and I saw a bit of ice too. After buying some things at the shopping mall, I went for a walk in the green area behind one of the small supermarkets in that part of town. In this post, I'll show you some details from that suburban winter wonderland. Have a good viewing.

Here you can see a bunch of lovely crystal flowers that appear to have appeared on some strange yellow stems. Well ...

... the stems are actually petals and the minuscule flowers are frost crystals that formed on their tops. Here you can take a look at the entire flower that looks like a common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale). If I had only seen a flower, I would have been sure that you are looking at a common dandelion now, but ...

... the seeds of the plant were also there, and they looked different. When I got closer to this fluffy thing and when I took a good look through the macro lens ...

... I saw more crystals that look fairly different in a different environment.

The surrounding grass was also covered with the same kind of frosty jewels.

I collected plenty of them in these photographs.

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In this wide shot, you can take a look at the scenery.

Puddles by the side of the road were completely frozen.

This dried-out leaf of the reed bordered with crystals was photographed on the edge of a puddle.

I found many beautiful details on the surface of the frozen mud.

This small cluster of crystals, for example ...

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... that looked like some kind of sea ​​urchin with spines made of ice.

Here you can see a bunch of crystals on a small horizontal fragment of some dried-out plant.

On the curved fragment of a similar kind, the frost looks considerably better. More like a thought-out sculpture.

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In this vertical creation, the accidental winter art of matter and physics reached perfection, in my opinion.

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The thick ice in the middle of the largest puddle was broken by the trucks that bring various stuff to the nearby supermarket store.

Here you can see some very decorative crystals that were hanging from the edge of a fairly large piece of ice.

These things have a totally Chrismassy look. In the following photograph ...

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... you can admire another beautiful sculpture found in that area.

Here you can see a bunch of Schizophyllum commune mushrooms that I found and photographed on a piece of wood ...

... stuck in the mud near one of the puddles.

These leaves of the blackberry shrub (Rubus ulmifolius) ...

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... were photographed fifty or sixty meters from the unpaved road ...

... in the sunny place ...

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... on the edge of the meadow.

Here you can see the frost on the underside of the pretty large leaf of some plant that I wasn't able to identify.

Here you can take a good look at the frost on the small leaves on the top of the young shoot of the Galium mollugo plant.

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The four portraits shown here can give a better idea about the look of that plant.

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The Galium mollugo plants were photographed in the central part of the meadow surrounded by shrubs and reeds ...

... not far from the dandelion-like flowers that started the post.

Here you can see another fluffy seed head decorated with frost.

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The crystals look totally surreal in this tiny macro landscape.

Here you can see a crowd of icy chrystals on the leaf of grass. In the following photograph ...

... a small cluster of those crystals is nicely isolated from the rest so you can take a good look at the basic structure.

Here you can see another seed head, the third in this post.

This one has lost some of its seeds.

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And now, before ending the post ...

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... is time to take another macro dive into the center of the flower.

The crystals in that vivid yellow environment were too lovely for words. A real treasure.

And that's it. This winter excursion ends here.

AS ALWAYS ON HIVE, THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MY WORK.