Sugar-Frosted Leaf Detail

[best appreciated at full size against black]

Looking around for interesting frost shots a couple of weeks ago, I wandered down to our seasonal pond. At this time it only had a small amount of water in it, as it hadn't rained much. I was delighted to find a thick coating of ice on the surface, rippled and encasing leaves under the surface. Here is a leaf, edged in frost and sitting on the surface of the pond. If you look closely, you can see the shapes of leaves under the ice! :D

This image was taken in January, 2012.