{"id":6841,"date":"2021-02-09T05:27:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T10:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=6841"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:33:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:33:05","slug":"pining-for-more-frost-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=6841","title":{"rendered":"Pining for more frost photos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Not for the fjords, mind you. I ventured about, searching for a variety of pines, and boy, did I succeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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I found a variety of pine needle shapes, in a variety of orientations, with a variety of ice formations attached to them. And here we go…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I love the funnel-like cone of some of these. I hadn’t paid such close attention to the pine trees near my place, but I found out rather quickly that they’ve got some really interesting features!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even among similarly shaped pine branches, I found an assortment of icy spikes on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These were so breathtaking, I didn’t even notice how cold it was outside…or how long I’d been standing out in that cold. Didn’t matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The orientation of the ice spikes tends to convey a sense of motion, or at least an indication of some bitter wind as they formed overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What I found interesting was how some of the needles were coated in ice, while others were completely unscathed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Others were barren on one side, but blasted with ice on the other. That makes a wonderful photo like this one possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Any guesses which direction the wind was blowing the night before? I’m gonna say from the right side of this photo. Call it a hunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Naturally the long-needled pines wanted to get into the game, as well. We can’t let the short-needled guys have all the fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There’s something star-shaped about this one which caught my eye. The direction of the spikes seems to convey a rotation of sorts, despite their haphazard directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Plastered. It’s hard to tell just exactly what is under all that ice, but trust me: it’s a pine branch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s almost like a hairdo when it’s on one side, isn’t it? This one could be in a punk band, or maybe an eighties New Wave group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And, with this glorious specimen, I’m spent. At least on the pine photos. I have plenty more frost (yes, Rime Ice) photos yet to come in future posts, but I’m trying to theme each of them. Stay tuned…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not for the fjords, mind you. I ventured about, searching for a variety of pines, and boy, did I succeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,32],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-6841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cool","category-weather","tag-frost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7523,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6841\/revisions\/7523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}