FROST AND SNOW

Frost outlines the shapes of leaves living and dead.

Sometimes on the leaf margin and sometimes all over

Sometimes along a vein.  What magic decides it?

It's not just ice crystals on the grass but frozen water droplets.  So maybe it appears as dew at first and then as the temperature falls the droplets freeze. 
OR

Maybe yesterday's frost melted and then re-froze.

OR 

Perhaps these are the frozen droplets of freezing fog.

That was on 9th December; the next two images were on the 10th. 

 The crystals of ice looked more granular

And then on the 11th we had snow - different crystals again

Ranged along tree branches and already beginning to thaw.

I know we hate the cold but it is part of life just as death, decay and darkness are.  

Are we losing the consciousness of all four?