"Some of the stranger ice formations you're likely to find in the woods are called "frost flowers" or "feather frost". A typical example looks like a small puff-ball of cotton candy, a few inches across, made up of clusters of thin, curved ice filaments." - Michael Muller

Is it starting to get frosty in Ojai? - Casey Muller

90 degrees today, so cotton candy will have to serve as simulacrum..... - Michael Muller