TheBanyanTree: Fern Frost

[Mike Pingleton]

Beautiful.  I'm not sure I want to know how it happens - sometimes I
think Beauty and Mystery make the perfect couple.
-Mike

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Tom Smith <deserthiker2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Went for a walk in the neighborhood at sunrise.  There had been
> an overnight rain and the temperature was in the low 30s.
> happened to notice what I thought at first was textured paint
> on a parked car.  Became fascinated with the graceful floral-
> like patterns.  Took the pocket-size camera I always carry on
> walks and started taking pictures.  The patterns were all over
> the car, including the windows.  Had to be frost.. but this was
> like a garden..  Light through the other windows provided
> backlight to bring out the patterns, and the angle of the
> window picked up sky colors.
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> I still don't understand how these patterns are possible.  How
> could just water and glass and gravity produce this fern
> garden?  I can sort of wrap my mind around the possibility of
> beautiful symmetrical snowflake crystal arrays, but this was
> like a DRAWING.  All I can say is Mother Nature is quite an
> artist.
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> Image at:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/9482738@N07/5487696082/
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> "On no account make a distinction between the absolute and the
> sentient world."  -Huang Po
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