Winter Wonderland

As you might have guessed, winters in Alaska are cold! As the temperature drops to 0 and below the whore frost begins to grow. The air is so cold that any moisture present freezes into tiny white ice crystals and clings to virtually everything. As a result nature's Christmas lights are turned on! Everything sparkles with brilliant bits of color as if the world has been sprinkled with diamond dust!
Miniature crystal castles spring up all across the ice laden lake.

Long tendrils of delicate white arms hang from the roof of the deck only to drop silently to the waiting snow below. The naked Birch & aspen trees are now dressed in their winter finery. And then a most amazing thing happens! A slight breeze picks up and the air it's self sparkles and shimmers in a microscopic light display.








Unfortunately, my camera's eye is blind to some of the mystical beauty here. Perhaps that is a good thing, sometimes the magic is in the experience.