Frost Flowers and Trash

Part Two | Grounded and Rooted in Love: A Foundation for Whatever Comes | An Advent Study of Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love

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Every morning this week I’ve been out in what is for Tennessee frigid temperatures: low 20s and even teens fahrenheit. My motivation besides not breaking my workout schedule was to find as many frost flowers as I could. After finding several dozen on Tuesday on the green way, I was startled to find hundreds ringing the edges of a field on my way to the gym. I of course pulled over and ran across the road to take pictures. I wondered if the cars that passed me thought it was strange. I wondered if they noticed.

I first found out about frost flowers from my friend Sherry when she posted pictures of some she’d found hiking a few years ago. After she’d posted about them, I was dying to find some, but went out looking without understanding what caused them to form. It took me several tries, and I found my first ones by accident: hiking Radnor Lake State Park in twenty-degree weather two years ago. The very next day I was driving down my own road towards the highway, and spott…