Monday 21 January 2019

A Touch Frawsty

After the grey, damp, cold weather of recent weeks, it was nice to wake up to a sharp hoar frost with sun breaking through the low mist. The old-timers used to pronounce the word "frost" as "frawst" in my youth, but somehow that old way of talking has slipped away, in this locality at least. I would like it very much if the weather forecasters occasionally said "Tha's a touch frawsty out there s'morning". Here, in ten photos, is what that frawst looked like yesterday.




















Did you see the ballet-dancing trees in the third photo?
Incidentally that grey, damp, cold weather of the last few weeks could be described as "rawky", another word for my dream meteorologist!


Take care.



22 comments:

  1. These photos are absolutely splendid, I love each and everyone of them. Sadly we have had no hoar frost here.

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  2. I see the ballet! :)

    Beautiful.


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  3. Regional dialects seem to have succumbed to the general spread of homogeneity we see everywhere today.

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  4. Wonderful ice/air/plants photos...rather nice ice.

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  5. There is such beauty in a frosty morning. Like the ballet dancing trees

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  6. Love those sunny frawsty mornings. Beautiful photos.

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  7. Dancing trees, maybe trying to keep warm! Somehow the beauty of frost gets largely lost in an urban area and I'm too lazy to get up and out before the sun's up. I'm enjoying your photos, frost by proxy.

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  8. I saw the dancing trees, they're trying to shake off the frost. Wonderful frawsty photos, they're beautiful to see.

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  9. Wonderful, I need to go out on a frosty morning for some photos. Not heard perople saying Hoar frost much around here either

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  10. Oh, I like the frawsty morn...

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  11. I love how the frost transforms everything! Even the same old things look cool! We have had some great hoar frosts recently. I blogged about them too!

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  12. You really captured those frosted plants into works of art. Great.

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  13. Wonderful photos and, as you said, a touch frawsty.

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  14. Beautiful pictures, - the frawst does them proud!

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  15. Them there frawst photies are whoolly good..

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  16. Definitely ballet dancers! I like the light coming through the trees too. There is so much beauty all around us.

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  17. Rawky weather and ballet dancing trees sound, and look wonderful on a 35C day John 😊

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  18. Beautiful! Hoarfrost often is like that.

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  19. Beautiful photos! I like to see the ice patters on puddles and the sunlit, misty photos are a favourite of mine too! We had a very beautiful frosty morning here yesterday so I've got some nice wintry scenes to share soon!

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  20. Hi John - yes dancing ballerinas ... very gentle. Love the frozen photos - gorgeous ... "Tha's a touch frawsty out there s'morning". - with a sprinkle of snow ... have a good weekend - cheers Hilary

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