As I returned from a home inspection in Willisburg, KY on Saturday, I saw this on the Bluegrass Parkway just south of Lawrenceburg, KY
Most of this is not water running on the surface of the ground. It's seeping out of the rock walls of a cut thru a hill leading down to the Kentucky River Bridge on the Bluegrass Parkway just south of Lawrenceburg, KY.
I see a lot of this type of ice when the weather gets cold enough.
When I woke up to let the dog out, the next morning, this is what greeted me as I opened the inside door. Yup, mother nature's artists had been at work overnight on the glass of the rear storm door. That's the sunrise shining behind it.
I was glad to have my long johns and insulated coveralls for the inspection. Kept me nice and warm.
AND, no it wasn't really that cold. I thought it was, until I talked to my sister in Northwest Nebraska, where the temperature was 10 below zero. It made me realize that 15 degrees above zero wasn't really all that cold.
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Well, Judith Reppert mentioned frost flowers, which piqued my curiosity. So I went and found a couple of pictures of them to share with y'all.
Pretty things aren't they?
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Wow. I was just in that area in November. That is some coll photos.
I've been truckin around in my fur boots for days! Also on emergency heat at my house which will really jack up my electric bill. Neat pic of your icy door.
Erby, that is just gorgeous! I'm jealous. I'm stuck here in Texas where it's not really cold and not really warm. I got your reply about the points and I think you're right! So, I always keep my word. I will make sure you get your 100 points! And, keep in touch. I like you. Deb
Erby,I love your pictures.....I felt cold just by reading....but like you said someone else had it even worse than you did :)
That's pretty cold
Dave: Come on back by. I might even buy you a cup of coffee.
Lizette: It's definitely not good weather for a pretty hot house flower like you. Stay warm. Spring will be here soon.
Why Debra, I like you too! Try McAllen. It's never cold and always hot.
Kathy: Someone always has it worse than we do! Most of us are too tied up in our own little world to realize it.
Joseph: It ain't all that cold!
Nice photos but as an ex-New Englander I much prefer the 55 deg. temp at 10:30pm in Louisiana. Don't much care if my next or only exposure to snow and ice is on video tape... oops (showing my age) I mean YouTube.
Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful pictures, Erby, that looks really cold...
Don: You're obviously an old fart ex-New Englander showing your age like that. Enjo the swamps, alligators and hurricanes.
Robert: Yeah, it's pretty, but it ain't really all that cold. Oh, I see you're from Florida. No wonder you think it's cold. :) :) :)
Erby, that ice looks just beautiful. We found some "frost flowers" , which are sort of long curls of ice, at the base of one of the trees on our land the other day. They were lovely and I had never seen any before. No camera, though.
Just wanted to drop by and let you know I appreciated your comment on my switching offices post. I haven't been on AR much lately and didn't write you a proper response. Sorry about that!
Judith: You piqued my curiosity!
Erby, nice job with the frost flower pics! That's just what they looked like, and of course we were strolling in the woods without a camera at the time. Thanks for posting them.
Gotta get yourself a digital camera. I like the Sony Cybershot. Have it with me almost all the time just for things like this.
Very neat pictures! Love the "frost flowers"! :) Looks like it will be another cold one in the morning...but not quite 10 below 0.
Melissa: Ypu'll be relatively warm with a predicted high of 36° F and a low of 25° F for today.
Though I still prefer the high to be about 80° F with a low of 70° F.
That's the best weather for my marketing trips.
Kentucky Home Inspector goes Marketing (Fishing)
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Hello, Erby!
The frozen ice from the rocks looks like stalactite--very cool (so to speak). I've not noticed frost flowers before...I'm sure they're around. I'll pay more attention since it's been very cold here in Southern IL--it's been in the teens lately. Must be that global warming.
Thanks for sharing your pictures!
Well, I'll tell you, Yolanda. Right about now, I could really use some of that global warming!
Please explain what a frost flower is?
Mother nature is a great artist. She gives us many beautiful things to see.
I looked at Wikipedia - wow! Thanks for the pretty pix - I have never heard of these before. They are so stunning. I will look for them when I walk in the woods when it's cold. Love it! Just another reminder to us all that there is soooo much more than real estate going on in this world. Beautiful.
Erby, I just noticed you carry a big stick...do you walk softly too? Deb
Nice pics Erby, thanks for sharing.
Trey: Look here for a definitioin of frost flowers.
Brigita: That she is. But if we want to share with others, we gotta have that camera ready!
Dawn: Work to live, don't live to work. Glad to see you're up to walking in the woods when it's cold. Too many people just sit by the fire and never experience life for themselves.
Debra: Yeah, it's a big stick. I used to walk softly!. But I never got any business. Now I walk boldly and brashly and loudly attracting attention to who I am and what I do everywhere I go. It's paid off in attracting business.
Joseph: You're welcome. Thanks for visiting
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Erby,
The frost flowers are amazing. I'll check out the link you provided for Trey. I've never seen anything like this, and I'm no youngster.
Mike in Tucson
Yeah Mike, but you're in Tuscon. You don't even know what freeze means outside your refrigerator and ice maker. :)
Until now, NY has been very mild - almost balmy. Tonight its very cold and blustery. The dogs LOVE it - I usually don't mind the cold but my body is in shock! GREAT photos. The frost flowers are really neat.
You guys are having a heat wave.
The wind chill yesterdy was about 20 below and frost has formed on the inside of my windows. That means the humidity in the house is high for our comfort and it freezes on the windows.
The outside cold isn't bothering me because I'm just not going out outside much. This is my healing time
http://activerain.com/blogsview/362141/I-Woke-Up-On
Spring is about 6 weeks away and this bitter nasty stuff will make the spring even more beautiful
Hi Erby,
Nature provides us with the most beautiful photo opportunities.
Stay in and Stay Warm, Viginia.
It is a beautiful model, Cynthia, IF we only take the time to stop and appreciate it. A lot of us don't know how to do that.
Erby, thanks for stopping by and reading and commenting on my post about the laptop being our TV! Actually I have never been one for TV anyway, but my husband likes the TV so I just used that example. I am in Owensboro, not too far from you. I just moved here and just became active in the rain. Isn't it great?
I love the incredible beauty that can come with snow and ice!! However, I can never handle the intense temperatures that come with it. Thanks for sharing the beauty without the cold!!
Vickie, It's great enough that I quit my corporate job and started this gig so I could stay here when the corporation told me it was time to move on. I REALLY like Central Kentucky, the people, and the lifestyle.
And YES, Vickie, the Rain is great. It's a wonderful resource for those of us wise enough to use it.
Trish. That's one of the great things about Central Kentucky. It comes but doesn't stay long. A couple of weeks ago, it snowed about 10 inches. We played and had fun. Two days later, it was ALL gone.