Tag: #Ragtag Daily Prompt

Protective Frost

It hasn’t been cold enough yet this year so I had to go back about 18 month when the fruit trees had already started to flower and a cold snap was on the way. The way to protect the blooms is to put on the sprinklers and make the forming ice protect the leaves and shoots.

Here is a post from then with more photos: Ice, Ice, Baby

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Frost

Plane Trees

Many squares in Europe are lined with plane trees. They look great in summer creating shade and a lovely greenish light. In winter they go bare and are usually cut back severely. This is what makes those clumps at the end of branches.

And in spring when they leaf out they look like this.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Excrescence