CATCH A FALLING CRYSTAL

I stepped outside to the front yard to make photos of the "bursting ice" phenomenon.  Everything looked as though it had white thorns, even the smoothest of surfaces.

Well, there they were, simply hanging in the frigid air: minuscule ice formations , small as bristles on a toothbrush!

I do not enhance or do special effects to my photos, though these look like I could have "erased" 

any connections the crystals had to something else.  No, to the naked eye, they were just floating in air:

Then, the sun came over the mountain, and there it was: the fragile spider web, highlighted by

the sunlight; and barely visible: