the slick and the beautiful

When I woke up this morning the first thing I heard on the early morning weather report was that we were experiencing freezing fog and that there had been several slide off type accidents, so I gave myself permission to go back to sleep, at least until daylight.  It sounded nasty and scary outside. Then, when I did pull myself out of bed and made it to the kitchen to start the tea, I looked out the window and discovered that the tree outside my kitchen window had been meticulously coated, branch by branch, with a beautiful coating of thick white frost. Wow. It was breathtaking.