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March Hoarfrost - Shakopee, MN

I liked the graceful lines of this small weed and the hoarfrost coating.

 

It was so cold on Friday morning, 8 degrees F, that there was a fine coating of hoarfrost on the vegetation surrounding a stretch of open water created by three springs located near the town of Shakopee. I believe the water from the springs emerges somewhere around 40 or 50 degrees F which provides the atmosphere with the water vapor needed to form the frost.

The light was very flat, due to the clouds of an approaching snow event, so one is unable to detect any texture in the underlying snow except in the area of the applied vignette.

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Uploaded on March 2, 2019
Taken on March 1, 2019