Ye olde hoar froste by T.Rex
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March 18, 2006
Another photo of hoar/rim frost on a bush right outside my building taken in March 2006. Again, note the frost seems to be on one side of each branch or twig.
I looked up the word hoar - it is old English with origin from Iceland. It means white or gray, often with a connotation of age.
The word rim (or also less correctly spelt rhyme) is also of ancient Scandinavian origin and is unchanged in Swedish and English, and means what it says, a rim (for example, of a wheel). Hoar frost is thus white or gray frost, rim frost is on an edge or rim as seen in the photo, on one side or the rim/edge of each branch and twig.
While a lot of you are cold, you may as well enjoy some beauty from it all.
Enjoy!
Comments (7)
Richardphotos
I have seen some posted here that were very long.it is a beautiful natural occurrence
Froggy Online Now!
Well, you live and learn! Love learning about the origins of names, words and places mate - hadn't realised the origins of these up to now though! Excellent photo too mate, had out first (inch) of snow this season today! That's probably it for the year now ;)
West_coaster07
Excellent work!!
Faemike55
Very cool capture (pun intended)
bmac62
Looks very similar to our backyard at this time of the year. Good-on-you for filling us in on the background of this lovely-to-look-at type of frost.
debbielove
Yep! That's a sharp old frost you had there! lol Best woolly underwear on I think? Great shot mate Rob
moochagoo
Kind of good (frozen) abstract