Macro Monday: To Freeze Or Not to Freeze

One day last week, I was puzzled to find this green plant free of frost, while a patch of dead leaves right next to it was all covered in white.

Macro Monday

Frosty Red

If you look carefully, there is still some red to be found in Nature.
(Photo from frosty New Year’s Eve 2011)

I had intended to link this to Ruby Tuesday, but discovered today that apparently in the 2012 calendar there are no Ruby Tuesdays.

There are still Tuesdays though - and all the colours of the rainbow, red included. So I’ll just post this anyway, with a thanks to Mary at Work of the Poet for all the Ruby Tuesdays in the past.

May new colourful adventures await us all!

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And two hours later, I am informed that there is Ruby Tuesday 2!

Ruby Tuesday: Frosty Red

I think these are Hylotelephium telephium. Swedish name ‘kärleksört’ which means ‘love herb’. I saw them in a garden I passed a couple of weeks ago on a frosty morning. (So the white on them is frost.)

The plant is said to have been used to heal wounds, especially burns. The roots can be eaten, preferably cooked for about 15 minutes first. The fresh leaves can be be eaten raw, and are rich in vitamin C. (And of course I had no idea about any of this until I just looked it up… Blogging is very educational!)

See more RED at Ruby Tuesday

 

Mosaic Monday: Frosty

Had to go back to October in my photo archives to find some photos with frosty colour. The past weekend has been all storm and rain.

See more Monday Mosaics at Mary’s Little Red House.

Ruby Tuesday: Frozen Rose Hips

Rose hips (Swedish: ‘nypon’) are the fruit of wild roses. The hips form after the rose petals have fallen off. They are picked when ripe and red and after the first frost in the fall, then carefully dried. Rose hips have a particularly high amount of Vitamin C.

Rose hip soup is a classical delicacy in Sweden, served as a beverage or as a dessert with milk, whipped cream or vanilla ice cream. Tiny almond biscuits are also a common addition when eaten as a dessert.

See more RED at Ruby Tuesday 

Mosaic Monday: Frozen Beauty

For more Monday Mosaics, visit Mary’s Little Red House.

Silver And Gold

Shot through my window yesterday morning in frosty sunrise.
Thick layer of silvery frost on some of the trees, and still a few golden leaves left on others…

Skywatch Grey-Day

We’re still on that weather roller coaster ride. Monday all white with hoar frost thick as I’ve never it seen before. Tuesday thaw and bare trees again. Wednesday creeping down below zero once more. Thursday morning -14°C (I stayed in). Friday more endurable –4° (or so), and again foggy and frosty, but not quite the same kind of thick spiky frost as Monday. More like the world was just sort swept into “dreamy” shades of white and grey – and all very still. I had to go into town and between my errands I took some shots in the park.

Posting this on Saturday morning, the sky is still as grey, but we’re back to +2°C and strong wind; which means the dreamy white from yesterday is gone, and the trees are now making noises while shaking their bare branches. On the whole, this time of year (knowing that the weather is just mocking us about anyway, and has no real intention of turning into proper spring for a couple of months yet) I do prefer the frosty and still –4 to the bare and windy +2. As if it mattered what we think! The weather does with us what it wants anyway…

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See more of the sky at
Skywatch Friday

Friday My Town: “Things Beginning With F”

 

1.
Frosty Fringe or Frozen Fog
(Follow the links if you want to see more frosty pictures!)

 

2.
Frosty Fancy Fence

 

3.
Frozen Fish
(ice sculpture in the Town Square)
 

4.
Fishy Fountain
(well, I don’t need to tell you this is a summer picture!)

 

5.
Frogs on Frock + Funny Sign

I keep getting back to this one, but it was quite a funny story.
The name of the sculpture is “Cloned Frogs on Gala Dress”.
It was put in the park for a Sculpture Festival,
but the children took it for a climbing toy…
It also got intentionally sabotaged (not so funny),
sent away for repair, and then put in a safer place.
With that sign added: Do not climb!
(What does it look like the frogs are doing?)

On top of all, the sculpture was given away, but kept.
Without leaving town, it was dedicated as a wedding gift to the
Crown Princess Victoria and her “man of the people” husband, now
Prince Daniel. Who in his speech at the wedding dinner said that
“it took more than one kiss to turn him into a prince”…

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Find Further Friday F’s at 
Friday My Town Shoot Out