Category: Vernal pool

  • Ice

    Ice

    This past December fooled me. It was so warm. Not at all the way December is supposed to be in the Blue Ridge Mountains or in the Mid-Atlantic states. The whole month was that way. The warmth had me worried about how the rest of the winter would be. But January came through for me.…

  • Magic in the COLD

    Magic in the COLD

    What might look like the edge of a ringed planet in deep space is actually ice in a vernal pool. A White Oak (Quercus alba) leaf frozen in ice. Another White Oak leaf on the surface of the ice. Or are those ripples of that same deep space? And here, a forest of minuscule trees…