{"id":1374,"date":"2014-12-15T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2014-12-15T21:45:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T12:45:14","slug":"frost-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/15\/frost-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Frost flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some stuff you can predict. It’s December. The air is dry. The trees are mostly bare.\u00a0Climb Ryuso and you’ll almost surely sit down to a clear view of Fuji.<\/p>\n

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There will be lots of brittle brown stuff to see,\u00a0and those red buds, too (if you look for them), on trees big and small. How determined\u00a0those buds\u00a0are to hold their own\u00a0through the winter!<\/p>\n

But there\u00a0is always something<\/em>—big or small—that you can’t<\/em> predict, and that’s half the fun.<\/p>\n

I guess we were about halfway up the mountain when we started noticing the white clumps here and there. At first, I thought\u00a0they might be some sort of fungus. Then I thought\u00a0that they\u00a0were surely some paper or vinyl that had been thrown away and blown about.<\/p>\n

And then I got right up on one.<\/p>\n

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It was a flower. A rose. A rose\u00a0whipped up from frost.<\/p>\n

At the top of the mountain, everyone was talking about these frost flowers.\u00a0All the folks\u00a0I\u00a0talked to\u00a0about them said\u00a0they’d never seen them before—even those who I knew had been climbing Ryuso every week for years and years. But there these frost flowers were–all different shapes and sizes, each one unique.<\/p>\n

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Somehow, a certain amount of moisture and a certain temperature and a certain breeze had come together in a certain way and that whole batch of whatever-it-had-become had spun itself up the reedy brown stalks that poked out from the brown needles carpeting the cedar forest floor.<\/p>\n

\"141207_frost_flower_forest_400\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We hikers weren’t the only ones intrigued by them. Fuji-san thought about\u00a0them so much and got so lost in his imagination that his head got stuck in the clouds and he could not<\/em>\u00a0get it out.<\/p>\n

\"141207_fuji_5c_500\"<\/a><\/p>\n

At least not\u00a0that afternoon.<\/p>\n

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Some stuff you can predict. It’s December. The air is dry. The trees are mostly bare.\u00a0Climb Ryuso and you’ll almost surely sit down to a clear view of Fuji. \u00a0 There will be lots of brittle brown stuff to see,\u00a0and those red buds, too (if you look for them), on trees big and small. How … Continue reading Frost flowers<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}