Frosting on the Windowpane II

                            There's frosting on the windowpane …

                                                 John Denver: Goodbye Again

It’s winter, not the winter of old when we had frequent days below 0°F and we had a day or two each winter when the temperature was below -10° here at the house. I miss those low temperatures and the beauty those clear cold days brought. As the climate changes there are fewer and fewer cold days.

At 2°F this was one of the coldest mornings of the winter and it brought some of winter’s beauty. On the inside of the storm window of one of our spare rooms frost had formed ferns, feathers and trees –

As the sun rises and the day warms the sculptures formed by the frost melt; with luck the cold temperature will return with the night and new frost will form on the windowpane.

I feel sorry for those of you who live in places where there is never frosting on the windowpane. By the same token as the worldwide climate continues to warm those of us who live in areas where we have proper winters can expect fewer mornings when frost can form on our windowpanes.