frost departing

[asakiyume]

You've probably seen patterns of frost on windows. Frost on glass makes little meadows and forests, or elaborate feather patterns.

I noticed that frost also makes patterns on the concrete sidewalk blocks near here. What I saw was not the frost itself but the pattern it lay down, visible in its melting:

Flowers


ferns


pines


coral

Comments

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

How beautiful! How long do the images stay on the concrete?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Today, it seemed like several hours? Maybe till around noon?

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Oh, those are gorgeous!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yeah, very cool-looking, I thought.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

That's amazing! I've never seen anything like that.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever noticed it before either, at least not to really see and think about what I'm seeing.

[ravens-shadow.livejournal.com]

My first thought was that the bottom two made me think of the brain, gray matter and its wrinkles of knowledge.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Heh, it does look like that! Maybe if we touch one portion, we can stimulate memories (but in whom/what?)

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

The first one looks like rug motif, helped, I think, by the dark border on the right. :D

I love the arching grace of the fern.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Rugs with these patterns would be pretty--especially in bright colors.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

yes. :D

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

How wonderful! It's like you have a Rorschach pavement... I see leaves in the first panel, a trees in the second, and seaweed in the last two.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Seaweed was a close second in my mind after coral and pine trees, and I can definitely see the other things, too!

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

So pretty.

Since double glazing, we don't get in on windows any more.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

How about on car windows? (That's where I see it a lot these days.)

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

We don't have one of those! :o)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I was just thinking as I typed this, I bet she doesn't have one of those.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Nothing if not predictable! :o)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Aww, not at all. My follow-up thought was, She and her husband get around and do a lot of traveling without a car: nice.

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

I think of the flowers as leaves and the coral as veins.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I can definitely see both things both ways.

[oiktirmos.livejournal.com]

You are a naturalist of olden times, with a digital camera.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

i love that idea. When I was a kid I got a magazine called The Curious Naturalist--did I ever tell you that? I wanted to be one.

[oiktirmos.livejournal.com]

They sell a compilation of stories from the magazine.
http://shop.massaudubon.org/store/product/43978/Curious-Naturalist/
No, I don't recall, but it is evident to all you are a naturalist.

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

Palimpsests of frost calligraphy. :) Very mysterious and hard to read.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Definitely open to multiple readings!