This is a real thing.
  • Photo by Jeff Bowman
  • This is a real thing.

Do you know about frost flowers? They are amazing, and researchers at UW, including Jeff Bowman, who took this picture, are looking into the blooms that form spontaneously, forming whole fields of flowers, suddenly, on the ocean.

Here's Robert Krulwich's NPR story, with gorgeous photographs, and here's the more science-y stuff.