At Home: Hoar frosty Tripdic (but in one pic!)

I love the word Hoar Frost. The word Hoar in Hoar Frost is thought to have come from a German word meaning gray venerable and old or expresses the resemblance of the white feathers of frost to an old man's beard. Brings up old english imagery of "old man winter".

Hoar frost is actually this fuzzy ice covering of tiny ice needles. It looks like fringe hanging from the branches and twigs on bare trees and shrubs.

There are several types of hoar frost but only two of them are commonly seen. Air hoar frost is an airy, maybe fuzzy covering of ice needles on tree branches, bushes and fences. Surface hoar frost is a fern like covering that forms on top of snow or other frozen surfaces. Hoar frost is not frozen dew, by the way. The frozen dew presents itself in a smoother, clear covering over grasses and trees etc.....(Taken from Hellium.com)

I like this picture, because in the time it took Ella and I to water and feed the hens and ducks this morning the sun had melted the first part of the picture. The rest on the right was still frosted and the middle softening....x