This morning we awoke to a world that had been frosted from the southwest with needle-like crystals of rime ice. A freezing fog had blanket the area overnight, leaving a strange and rare beauty in its wake. As soon as I got up I bundled up and trudged outside with camera in hand to photograph these ephemeral crystals before they disappeared. It was about 18 degrees, not counting wind chill, but absolutely worth it.
Tiny shards of ice on the spines of a cane cholla cactus.
The entire 8-foot cholla, decked in ice crystals.
Rime ice on narrowleaf yucca. This is the same variety that I obtain yucca fibers from.
Juniper.
A closeup branch of the same tree.
The wolfberry thicket.