Ice fog

Well, the weather finally broke this week; the high was above freezing and it drizzled all day! Such is the fine weather one can expect in The Netherlands in January.The weather broke because for the previous six days it didn’t break 32F and we were covered with a deep, Gator Bowl like fog for all but about 6 hours. Surreal for a Floridian, but the effects were eye opening. Now I know why all those cheesy plastic Christmas trees are covered with that mildly disturbing frozen plastic/fake ice. I now know where the relatively absurd concept of the white Christmas tree came from. Big shocker – Northern Europe.All four of us spent the week in awe. Everything was painted white, but there was never snow. Every night brought us a fresh batch of while magic-shell to scrape off the car. No heat or sunlight to burn it off. Each day, thicker. Funky fog too. Just like the worst Gator Bowl fog bank, but freezing to everything and not going away. Kind of like if you fill up an empty milk glass with water. Neat stuff. Enough of my babbling. I’ll let the best of the pictures speak for themselves.

A few more here, here, and here.