Fog

[azziria]

Heavy fog here this morning, a monochrome world of limited vision. The walk from school to nursery goes through a small wood, all stark black branches with a single silver drop of water suspended from each twig. Even a day like this has beauty when you look with proper attention :-)

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[marquesate.livejournal.com]

I fully agree *S* I find beauty in every kind of weather, even the worst grey, rainy, stormy day. :-)

When I couldn't sleep last night I looked outside and the fog was so thick that even the playpark opposite had vanished. Every sound was muffled even more, a world of silence, eerily lonely. Beautiful.

[guenhwyvar1973.livejournal.com]

I always love it when it's foggy, it's always so quiet and desolate. A bit like when there's been a heavy snow. Even familiar things seem different and strange.

[marquesate.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, SNOW! Snow is wonderful. Mum said it's very cold in the forest and it looks as if we were getting snow. PLEASE! Pretty please with a cherry on top. :-)

Just need to find my fur lined winter boots first, can't find the blasted things in my shoe wardrobe, where the heck did I put them.... *growls*

[azziria.livejournal.com]

I've only ever had one white Christmas, and that was in the States, on Cape Cod. It was so cold that the sea froze - I'd never seen frozen sea before! But it was very lovely, everyone had Christmas lights outside their houses and Christmas wreaths on their doors, and in the snow it was just magical. A lovely Christmas.

[guenhwyvar1973.livejournal.com]

Lovely *sighs wistfully*

Of course, the only problem with snow (and indeed fog it seems) is that it brings the rail system to a grinding halt.

I shall say no more, else this will turn into a long and bitter rant........

*takes a deep breath*

[ihlanya.livejournal.com]

Only one white Christmas? But you live in England! We've been in Scotland three years (this will be our fourth Xmas) and we had a white Xmas the first year.

[maymorning.livejournal.com]

Husband just called from Cardiff to say they have thick fog there. Oddly enough, we don't up here (we live in a village above Merthyr). It;s all frosty and looks lovely. There's a foal and his mother living in a field at the back of our house and they both have their shaggy winter coats on.

[azziria.livejournal.com]

Maybe you're high enough to be above it.

We were up in the Lakes once, and had decided to do the classic Coppermines vally horseshoe walk - up Wetherlam, then along to the Old Man and down. When we got up there was thick fog, but we decided to do the walk anyway, with compasses etc to hand.

As we headed up Wetherlam the light got brighter and brighter, and just as we got to the top we came out of it. Only the tops of the highest peaks were out of the cloud, just like islands. It was an incredible view. We dropped back down into the cloud to walk along the ridge, then came out of it again up to the summit of the Old Man. Totally amazing. (And the lazy so-and-so's who got up late and started after us missed it all, because the cloud rose shortly after and they saw nothing all day.)

[pennynya.livejournal.com]

I love fog. Have to say, it's just *nothing* weather where I am though. Grey and cold. I'm *looking* for the beauty....

[azziria.livejournal.com]

Not always easy when it's gray and dull. We get too many days like that here in Cambridge in the winter. Sort of nothing weather, really. Give me wind or storms or frost or snow any day.

[pennynya.livejournal.com]

It's possibly even worse in Sevenoaks than it was in oxford. Actually, oxford's pretty rubbish all through the winter... Load of rain, but no proper storms!
By the way, I just checked out your pictures. Lovely! I especially liked the ones of Trinity and Clare Birdge.

[azziria.livejournal.com]

Thank you! They were snapped one morning as I was walking into town to do some shopping, and everything just looked so lovely in the sunshine. When you live somewhere like Cambridge (or Oxford) it's very easy not to see how beautiful it is - you kind of get so habituated to it, you forget what it's really like.

[pennynya.livejournal.com]

Oh, Oxford has this magic quality where it looks so beauitful in sunlight, but the moment the sky goes grey, it becomes hell on earth. the stone *glows* golden with sunlight, but in the rain - black and grey and depressing!

[azziria.livejournal.com]

I like Oxford, though - subtly different from Cambridge. DH read Physics at Wadham, then came here to do his PhD, which is when I met him - so we head over to Oxford occasionally because he still has friends over there.

[pennynya.livejournal.com]

Ah, wadham is lovely! I did my belly dancing class there!

[azziria.livejournal.com]

We stayed there last year, alumni privileges, when we went over for a friend's wedding. They put us in a room just next to the room DH had when he was a fresher. He was really chuffed.

I find it very interesting, because I went to Leeds Uni, so my experience of Uni was quite different from his. Good things about both, though.

[pennynya.livejournal.com]

Sounds lovely... I wouldn't wish my Freshers room in jesus on anyone though.
I often do wish I'd gone somewhere slightly less, um, pressure intensive...

[ihlanya.livejournal.com]

I love fog as well. When I still lived in South Africa, long before I met ereneth, some friends and I went to God's Window. The view is usually spectacular, but this day it was covered in cloud and you could feel the drop below you. Creepy. It was as though it was a forgotten land.

[azziria.livejournal.com]

I've been along Crib Goch on Snowdon a few times in the cloud. Nothing exists but the few feet of extremely narrow ridge in front of you and behind you. And as you say, you can feel the drop on either side of you. Surreal.

[ihlanya.livejournal.com]

I'm an acrophobe - you can imagine how it freaked me out.

[claidheamhmor]

God's Windows is spectacular - we were there for our honeymoon. No fog though - but some of the areas around there were beautiful on the foggy mornings - like one place called The Misty Mountains.

[claidheamhmor]

Wow, you describe that so beautifully!

[lj_stowaway]

Lovely image, just lovely. *happy sigh*

Indeed, bare trees are beautiful always in the wet - fog, mist, rain or melting snow. The colours of the bark just glow (black and grey and brown and chestnut) and the lichens soften and show their subtleties.