On Dec 27, 2004, at 10:24, Lynn Carpenter wrote:
I woke to an absolutely gorgeous morning! As Lake Michigan has not frozen
over, we had fog overnight, at an air temperature of about 14 deg. F (-10
C), like a giant bath steaming in a cold bathroom. As the temperature
dropped further, the fog froze on every tree branch, pine needle, and weed
stem, so everything outside is covered with long, beautiful frost crystals.
It looks like Fairyland out there.
Green with envy :) But, at least, I know what you're talking about... We had that kind of day once, here in VA, some 10-12 yrs ago. It rained in the evening, and froze in the night, and the morning (bright an sunny) was like you say - straight from Fairyland! Even the "ice flowers" in the windows of my childhood in Poland didn't compare, being 2-dimensional, while this fantasy was in 3-D... Absolutely stunning, and worth every minute of shivering in the cold and clue-less-ness when the electric and telephone wires broke under the burden :) Though I was saddened to hear that, in some nearby areas, even tree branches broke; ours just hung down low, ponderous and majestic, like rich dowagers at an Opera premiere, with all their sparkly diamonds... :)
-- Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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