Monday 5 December 2016

Muted Colours in the Frost

It's cold out there but beautiful in the frost! Colinton Dell looks very wintry

and the bridges are covered in thick frost


which glitters beautifully in the low sunlight.

Most colours are muted and the occasional berries, like these rosehips shine out particularly brightly

The puffball fungi look very old now, but if you look carefully you can see they still have some spores left inside, waiting to be released when some animal bumps into the fungi!  

A kingfisher dashed up the river and disappeared into an overhanging bush,  then a few minutes later dashed across the river and disappeared again! A lovely spot of colour on the wintry river.


9 comments:

eileeninmd said...

Hello, pretty frosty images. Sounds like a nice Kingfisher sighting. Happy Monday, enjoy your day and the new week ahead!

Simon Douglas Thompson said...

it's almost furry looking, that frost! We had a hard one last night, I know this well from being out doing astronomy. Luckily I had rum to help.

Janneke said...

Lovely frosty mornings, we have them here too and I enjoy.

Jenn Jilks said...

How beautiful! We had 14 cm snow today!

RG said...

Nice photos! We are just getting our first serious frost and cold too ..

Magyar said...

We may shiver some, but nature's beauty gives us ALL that IS. Grand photos_! _m

Pietro Brosio said...

Beautiful images!

Lowcarb team member said...

I always like the way the weather, and light, plays an important part in photographs.

The frost here somehow makes it more magical ...

All the best Jan

Sallie (FullTime-Life) said...

Pretty "frosting". ...we didn't get any this year as Oregon was just rainy until we left for Florida. They got their first ice a few days after we flew out!