Frozen Blades of Grass
January 22, 2025
Photographer: Piero Armando
Summary Author: Piero Armando
While walking through a pasture near the village of Lillaz (Aosta Valley) in western Italy one morning this past fall, I came across these curious ice formations on clumps of grass. It seems that the grass was inadvertently soaked in water sprayed by a nearby irrigation system. During the night when the temperature dropped to 0 C, the water drops then froze around individual stems. Photo taken on November 9, 2024.
Photo Details: Canon EOS 600D camera; :1/1250 second exposure; f/7; ISO 400; 95 mm focal length.
Lillaz (Valle d'Aosta), Italy Coordinates: 45.5932, 7.3899
Related Links:
Microscopic View of Frost on Blades of Grass
Why water freezes at a range of temperatures