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This morning we had a hoar frost. I'd never heard of this until earlier this month. It's somewhat unusual, and now we've had two of them in three weeks.
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As soon as Greg called and told me how beautiful it was outside I threw on some shoes and went out to take photos. As you can see by the fact that my house is in the background, I didn't get any further than my front yard before I found beautiful scenery.
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My neighbors, Bob and Ruth, weren't home, but I wandered over to their yard to take more photos, including this leaf.
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On one of the trees in their front yard I spotted this little bit of seemingly free-standing frost. We speculate it's actually built on part of a spider web.
Greg and Sharon came over to see if I wanted to go out to Dillon Nature Center and I couldn't resist sharing my discovery with them.
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Dillon Nature Center was amazingly beautiful.
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I love snow and it has extra meaning for me these days. We all went our separate ways and I think everyone found some great photos.
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Finding color in the landscape was a challenge.
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It was a day for being thankful to be alive.
Greg has written a post with beautiful photos from the hoar frost earlier this month, and explains how it happens.
2 comments:
Patsy,
Something I've found when cleaning out closets or household "extras" is that if I know the boxes or bags are going to go to a goodwill place or another person, I am far more willing to give things up than I am if I've no one to give the excess to and it's only going to go to the dump. I hate to see perfectly usable things go to the dump! But if there's any chance someone else might wear my used clothing or keep my extra teapot, I can be far more generous with my clutterbusting.
It is better to think of others getting use out of things. But, I try to be careful about just tossing things that really are past their usefulness for another person - paint clothes and such. But... yes... others getting use from things is positive encouragement.
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