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Ice vase - Feb 2002
Ice vase - Jan 2004
Ice tower - Mar 2004
Ice pegs - 2007-8
Ice spike - Jan 2008
Ice spike - Dec 2008
Ice spikes - Dec 2008
Ice spikes - Feb 2009
Ice needle - Feb 2009
Ice triangles
Ice hair - Jan 2005
Brian Maginn's ice spike
Jon Nelson's ice vase
Stefan's 150mm ice spike

For more information see:

SnowCrystals.com
and
Ice spikes

also

Scientific American
Create ice spikes
Icicles in reverse

Jon Nelson's ice vase, 25th January 2009

Jon Nelson sent me this beautiful picture of an ice vase. He took the photo in the Ogi district of Shiga prefecture, Japan.
He thought that the temperature was around -4 C when it formed.

copyright Jon Nelson

Many thanks to Jon for allowing me to reproduce this picture.