Friday, November 25, 2011

Frost and Water on Kale

Water interacts in interesting ways with a backyard kale leaf. Here's frost one recent morning, like a miniature game of pick-up sticks.
Put a curly kale leaf underwater, and it develops glittery metalic highlights, much like a jewelweed leaf.
The waxy underside of curly kale gathers water into droplets.


In the same genre, an oak leaf fringed by frost, reminiscent somehow of a deer antler.

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