Strange shapes on my window

Wow - well captured there Lily - magic

just fantastic,

So beautiful and magical,Lily..I have added to my faves..I love it :o)

that is beautiful. thats why mother nature is so special.

that is just spectacular!!! thank you for putting them on here, never seen the likes of those before.

If you are old enough to remember the days before double glazing and central heating you may also remember seeing 'frost flowers' on the windows on really frosty mornings - in the worst weather they were sometimes even on the inside of the glass!

arent they stunning Lily, we had some on the garage windows, its so clever how they form such pretty patterns, great shots :o)))

WoW thier wonderful. shame that the sun brought their beauty out only to take them away.

Wow!

Jack Frost...I've been trying to get a picture of them.. Ojibway I remember it well, Eventually those crystals become large Fern fronds that are spectacular.

I remember them inside too...good old days? not.!

Great photos Lily, isn`t nature wonderful? :o)

They are lovely photo`s Lily, I can well remember those scenes on our windows, only want them in pics now, lol...

Does anyone remember The Snow Queen in Grimm's fairy tales, where Gerda and Kay used to put heated pennies on the frosted windows so they could see out?

Many thanks for your comments everyone, I'm glad you all like them as much as I did. I'm delighted you've put them in your favourites Bloomer :o))
I've never seem them quite like this either Sticki but I do remember the larger frond patterns from those "good old days" before central heating.
I should say that these were on the windows of my porch which has no door, just in case anyone thinks I live like an eskimo!

Lol Lily I have no central heating or double glazing and i can't get the stuff to form.

Oh wow they're magical Lily......
I remember them on the inside too Bloomer, brrrr, our kids don't understand being cold :-)

I did a blog on jack frost and his pattrens either last winter or the winter before. I loved the ones that looked like ferns.

I bet you've got lovely log or coal fires though Pimpernel......or maybe you're an Eskimo? LOL
Thanks Sinbad. Our kids walk around in skimpy clothes in winter and then complain they're cold! LOL I even had some ice on the inside of a double glazed window the other morning :o((( Brrr...

Beautiful aren't they...

Fabulous pics. Lily so magical, I too can remember them on the inside of the windows but would rather forget, anyway they were no where near as pretty as yours !

What a beautiful winter marks. Did not see them for quite a long time. We have had frosts with minus 15 gr Celsius and windows are not transparent at all - they are like a milk.

Wow , thats amazing Lil.

I have had those in the porch here, they're fascinating aren't they! I remember waking up one morning in my student digs, with these on the inside of the windows, and my sleeping bag stuck firmly to the glass! I never even felt the cold, I was made of sterner stuff those days! Lol!

I tried to find your blog SBG but must have missed it, can you remember when it was, I'd like to see it?
Thanks Lulu and Rose, the sun coming out really set them off.
Val, can you really remember THAT far back? LOL
Brrr Katarina, that really is cold! We really don't have too much to complain about here do we?
Hi Libet, I think central heating has made us all soft, or maybe it's an age thing and preferring to dress for warmth and comfort rather than for looks and fashion!

Absolutely beautiful Lily, how well you've caught them too. I don't remember them being so lovely:-)

Fab photos Lily, they're such pretty patterns,..... Expert Photography!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beautiful pics, but I simply can't wrap my head around no central heating. How is that possible?? Forgive my ignorance :(

Thanks BA, they did look lovely and once the sun made them sparkle - just perfect for another photo :o))
Thanks to you too Lin but I can't really take any credit for the photography as the camera does it all with little help from me!
Glad you both like them Bilbo and Lil and as for no central heating, how would we ever survive without it? I'd take to my bed with a stack of duvets and a hot water bottle. :o((( My husband could keep me supplied with food etc because he'd quite happily do without central heating........or so he says!!

Frosty, ferny patterns on my freezing bedroom windows were part of my childhood Lily. Your porch frost patterns are very dainty and pretty. That's the joy of digital cameras. Point and shoot and there it is, and then on to the computer to share with other people. Another miracle of modern invention.

Lily, I nearly missed this blog - beautiful patterns! I, like so many of the others, remember frost on the inside of the windows, and we never thought anything of it. Made of sterner stuff in those days.
I read "The Snow Queen" over and over and over again when I was about 7, Steragram. Brilliant story. I reckon C.S. Lewis pinched great chunks of it for "Tales of Narnia". I used to heat pennies, too, but got my hand burnt quite badly one day, trying to pick one up that had been on the fender just a little too long...... That cured me of that little habit. You could crack windows that way.

lily2 my blog was called memories of yester year and I posted it back in dec 09. there were 2 photos of frst patterns on the car. didnt think it was that far back. ;o)

Yes they are dainty aren't they Dorjac, haven't had anymore since then though.
Hi Gattina, I think we've all had enough of frost, snow etc however pretty the result. I hear more snow is possible tonight which is not a pleasant thought. :o((

It is snowing here, Lily :) Unfortunately, forecasts say, it will be snowing for the next two weeks. However, traffic works, there is electricity and enough wood in the yards, yet :)

its been snowing since 3.pm in east yorkshire. last weekends stuff hasnt gone yet !

Thanks SBG, how time flies. I've never seen ice patterns like those and what a trip down memory lane looking at all those comments from members of years gone by. Your blog was very aptly named in more ways than one! Oh dear, that's not good, some of our snow is still around too. I hope what you're getting now wears itself out before it gets here .
Two weeks Katarina!! How awful, do you usually have such long spells of it? I'm glad you're warm and able to get out and about :o))

Hi, Lily. For sure this is normal February weather, I mean snow and minus seven or eight. Fr sure those frosts minus twenty five as they were last week, they are rare here.

It's pretty rare here, too, Lily. By the law of averages, then, we should be getting a lovely mild winter NEXT year! -17°c the night before last.

Minus 17 and minus 25!! I really can't imagine such cold temperatures :o( Well......you can always hope Gattina! We're having a brief respite several degrees above freezing at the moment, cold is supposed to be returning next week though.

Nice pictures Lily, I do remember those days of no central heating or double glazing and the added addition of the outside toilet . Did not hang about to admire the ice in those days but always remember that a wooden seat was warmer. There was always a little paraffin heater to take the edge of the cold.

I can conjure up the smell of those little paraffin stoves - we always had one to take the chill off the bathroom, too. Very, very dangerous they were, too. The little sister of a girl I was at primary school with died of burns when one tipped over.

I remember those paraffin heaters too,Gattina..horrible smell,and lethal things. My dad used to put it on downstairs,when he got up for work,and before the fire got going..just so it was cosy when me and mum got up..bless him..and as for the bathroom..brrrr !

I think we must be made of stern stuff in those days, Bloomer. Daughter always has her central heating going full blast, even on warm days, and then complains of the bills. What was it my scary headmistress used to say - "No inner resources!" (along with "No moral fibre!")

I can't do with the heating on all the time,Gattina..unless it is really bitterly cold..and even then,it feels far too stuffy....

Oh same here! What with my cold, dirty house, I should have incredible immunities built up: shame it doesn't seem to be working that way.

The soaring price of gas has made me very fussy with the temperature set on the thermostat. We have to have the heating on a lot as OH is rather frail. I can't stand it too hot.....just a safe 18 degrees. I spent my childhood sleeping in a cold boxroom with winter ice patterns on the window. I hated that, as my brother had a bedroom with the hot water tank and it was really warm. He never had ice ferns on his windows!!

Thanks for your comment Tommy. We never had an outside toilet but the bathroom was so cold that we had our baths in a tin bath in front of the living room fire. I'm not so sure those were the "good old days"!
I've no chance of having an overheated house as my OH never feels the cold. :o(( He sits around in a short sleeved shirt while I'm muffled up in about 4 layers....plus the thermal underwear of course!

Lily, lol. I always admired my British colleagues who walked in the short sleeves when it was outside 15 Celsius saying "What a fine weather". Lol. We from the Continent had sweaters and light coats :)

A lot of ladies here don't shed their fur coats until summer has truly arrived. We even saw one in May one year, when OH and I were in shorts and t shirts and eating ice creams, and the temperatures must have been well up into the high 20's. Katarina, 15°c is lovely and WARM.