Open Thread – Frost
As promised, I got some pictures of the hoar frost that is the result of the ice fog we’ve had for the past few days. Since this is the time of year I wake up in the dark, go to work in the dark, and leave work in the dark, these shots had to be taken quickly during a brief late afternoon errand. I’ll try for more tomorrow.
Brrrrr..!!!!!!!!!
Shivers up my spine thinking of the cold – what a brave soul you are AKM – to spend time outside to get these wonderful photos for us. Still in the low 20s here in KY, and I just saw a newsclip of the snow in Buffalo – stay warm and safe all you northern NYers!
Geoff Dunne has another post up. As a commenter said – “Will no one ever hold her accountable?”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/deja-vu-all-over-again-pa_b_389706.html
It is amazing that Palin (or her ghostwriter) wants to keep dialogue (read as argument) going with Al Gore! She hasn’t the mental acuity, to say nothing of intellect on the subject, to carry on a conversation with him. I wish he’d manage to stomp her out of the discussion once and for all. She’s quite the Miss Priss to be putting HIM down for making money????
Lawrence O’Donnell and Ed Schultz gave her quite the set-downs yesterday, so she’s probably crying today about those mean guys in the lefty media.
Sarah – Go away!
Beautiful shivering photos and oh so lovely.
Love it
Lovely photos – love this time of year when it does this!! Make EVERTHING look great, even old village junk piles
Just read the Huffington Post link – amazing !!!
Sad that junk like this gets published.
No better than a super market tabloid rag!!
Thanks for the pictures.
Brutal beauty at its best……..
just beautiful
So Palin’s Made-up American Life extends beyond her made-up political resume? I’m shocked. Just shocked, I tell ya’. lol
After listening to a few videos of Mary Glazier, Palin’s chosen spiritual guide, I cannot assume anything other than that Palin has been “reality challenged” for a very long time. And after 20+ yrs of Glazier’s influence, one can only speculate what lurks in the shadows of her muddled mind. The one thing of which I feel sure is that what remains secreted away there is more disturbing by a large measure than what occasionally seeps out. Her public persona reveals openly that she has no inhibition against fabricating her own reality. The one thing about her Facebook fairy tales that seems genuinely Palin is that they consistently present a distorted perception of what is real – a conjured version of reality that suits her immediate need to appear knowledgeable and relevant. Should we expect anything other than more of the same kind of fairy tales in a book intended to make her appear relevant? Not if we have been paying attention.
Re: Dunn’s article. Dunn cites a single source that uses the quote and attributes it to Linkletter *without citing the source*. A quick Google search of the quote turns up far more attributions to Wooden than to Linkletter. If Mr. Dunn wants to take shots at someone for not doing her homework perhaps he should do his own first. Maybe he’s right, but he doesn’t offer proof. When and where did the quote appear?
28 degrees F right now in NYC. I have to run errands today and dread going outside!
These are gorgeous pictures. And they make me feel colder too. LOL
@9 Jane in NC
Mr. Dunn cited his source for the quote.
Except that’s not a John Wooden quote. It’s an Art Linkletter quote–and it was cited in a book called Why Winners Win by Art Garner.
The quote by Art Linkletter is on page 152 of Mr. Garner’s book.
That quote is attributed to Mr. Linkletter on the four quotation websites I visited at random.
I’m done now.
Heatwave! It’s already up to 30* here. Thinking about working around the yard some in the afternoon, but what I would really love to do is just sit and dream with those beautiful pictures. Thank you for sharing that glory. Wow.
Now I have to go read that link and get in a bad enough mood to carry me through scrubbing some bathrooms around here.
GreatGranny, I am a native of the Commonwealth! Born and raised in Daviess County.
Hi LiladyNY, my struggling actor son (in NYC) has been complaining about the cold. He doesn’t mind the temp, he says it’s the wind that gets you. He had a bartending gig yesterday, got there early and after 15 minutes of waiting, he just went up and said you don’t have to pay me until 3, I just can’t take the windchill factor. Of course, he had on his tux and his winter coat, but sometimes that doesn’t cut it.
We used to live in Marblehead, MA, and the ocean would provide some hoar frost. It sure is beautiful. And again AKM, your pictures are fantastic. We also used to get (when it was -15 to -20 degrees below, a fog over the harbor and ocean that was ice. I remember the fishermen saying it was dangerous because of the ice particles. But I don’t know if that is true. It sure was pretty though.
Newfoundland Dogs Rule – I remember that wind only too well. I worked in midtown Manhaattan – 6th Ave & 46th. My train stopped at 49th St & Broadway and I walked crosstown to my office. Anyone who knows the city knows that crosstown streets are about a mile long (I exaggerate but not by much). The wind that whipped down those streets from the East River was totally brutal. I don’t miss it one bit.
My daughter worked on lower Broadway which is well known for the “canyon effect” of the wind. I’ve seen windows blown out of buildings and have literally had to cling to the sides of the buildings when it’s windy.
Good luck to your son.
One of my learning experiences as a Texan living for a while in Maine was frozen fog. It seems impossible, since once frozen the ice bits should percipitate out but somehow don’t.
Walking and driving in a frozen sticky mist is not pleasant.
15 Newfoundland Dogs Rule Says:
The freezing sticky fog can coat everything above water on a boat, adding tons to its weight, making exposed machinery difficult or impossible to use. It can literally capsize or sink a boat.
Beautiful AKM! Thanks for sharing. BTW, cant wait for your book salon today!! Should be a BLAST!
Also, just ran across this today. If you haven’t signed, please do. Big rally planned in DC today also too also. ha
Tell Congress NO!
http://rethinkafghanistan.com/
Vote NO on any spending bill that would send more troops to Afghanistan.
As usual AKM you have captured real beauty. We have been experiencin -48 with the wind chill, but I still marvel at the beauty on the trees as I sit at my desk. Its heavens way of giving us something wonderful to go with the extreme cold.
Beautiful pics.
I can hear the ice crackling on those branches! Fabulous shot.
Just had a thought about the quote — Is it possible Wooden used it in a book of his but didn’t attribute it to Linkletter? I really want to use this to slam her but want to make sure it really isn’t in a Wooden book first.
The spare beauty of hoarfrost always puts me in a philosophical mood.
Reading to go with these beautiful photos:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/12/the-tragedy-of-hope.html
Best da mn essay on Obama I’ve seen since Jan 20th.
That NYC cross town wind can be brutal! That reminded me of trying to get from near Bloomingdales to the 4 Seasons Hotel on 57th one very clear but -30* with the wind chill morning. We walked half a block, eyes stinging even with sunglasses. My friend said “Forget it, we’re taking a cab!” We had breakfast, and I took a cab to work afterward, so one cab for 5 blocks and then another for 6 blocks. I’ll never forget that breakfast, either.
Thanks for the beautiful pictures.
It was interesting to hear how hoar frost is formed. I have seen it many times, but never really thought about how it happens. I bet there are amazing and beautiful formations of ice crystals everywhere.
Re: the Wooden quote – Someone over on HuffPo makes note that the quote does show up on pg 75 of Wooden’s book, “They Call Me Coach”. I’m thinking that it was a quote that perhaps he used for inspiration in his life so he included it in the book to underscore a situation he was going through but he didn’t include the source which led people to believe it was his.
Another thought is that Linkletter and Wooden grew up around the same time. Maybe this was a saying they both grew up with ?
Either way, I’m going to hold off using this one for now. Darn. It was a good one too !
Also, ice storms are probably one of the most beautiful destructive things I’ve ever seen. Didn’t know about hoar frost until yesterday and had no idea about the potential destruction until above.
The quote is not so incredibly earth-shattering in its sentiment that two people could not have said the same thing. Indeed, I agree with Buffalogal that it’s quite possibly a saying of their generation.
I’ll even believe that she remembered it herself. It’s exactly the sort of refrigerator magnet saying I’d expect to stick to her tiny, little brain. Maybe her own b-ball coach repeated it often during her HS playing career.
I find the anecdote suspect though. Palin discussing a book she read–even a book on sports with her husband? That’s like her referencing Lincoln during her “task from God” debacle. I think it’s simply more wishful thinking of how it happened rather than what actually happened.
@23 news from ca
Ah, those days when your eyelashes freeze! Added to the torture of the wind is the absolute genius (snark) of those architects who decided that granite sidewalks would be a good idea – those same beautiful sidewalks that turn into deathtraps in a dangerous contest of risk in the rain and sleet!
Great Pictures!!
#28 LiladyNY
After a 2003 nor’easter (I think it was President’s Day), I walked up the middle lane of the three lanes of Park Ave to get home after a conference call. There was no way I could make it on the sidewalk, and luckily, there weren’t many cars, so I was able to walk from Grand Central to the 60s. Without slipping and falling.
@Overthemoon #22 – Thank you for that link, what an excellent piece by Mr. Sullivan. My favorite saying comes to mine while reading this “It is said true nobility is not being better than anyone else, it’s being better than you use to be” Anonymous
now I know where the idea of flocking Christmas trees came from…just beautiful, although I could never live in that much cold…I freeze when the temp here drops below 60
It’s incredible how nature acts like an interior decorator, or “exterior” in this case. The ice is evenly distributed on everything. Very beautiful, but yet for us, inconvenient.
I remember downhill skiing in sub-zero temps (silly teenagers) and by the time we got to the bottom of the hill we’d have ice built up on our hats and faces. Now, I could do without the cold. But, at least for the holidays it is nice to have a dusting of white snowflakes.
in the HuffPost article mentioned above – there is a comment that the quote is indeed in Wooden’s book “They Call Me Coach”……however, if you go to google.books and do a search for “things turn out” you will find that the quote is not in the text of the book on page 75 but is a quote at the beginning of that chapter.
i tried posting with links but got kicked out……so leave the search to you.
just the rest of the story………..palin quoted from a quote in a book we can never be sure if she ever read cause, face it, the gal doesn’t give the impression she reads much.
Lovely photos, AKM. It always looks like a fairy land with the frost, especially if it’s sunny and everything is all sparkly.
We’ve had temps nearly as cold as yours. Well, earlier this week I think it was. Most mornings were only in the teens – very cold for Puget Sound. I’m glad it’s supposed to warm up. But that means it might snow. And we all know that means trouble as people around here can’t drive in the snow. (Too many hills and too many idiots.)
My poor hummingbirds were looking for the feeders yesterday but they were frozen, so I brought them inside last night. I’m already looking forward to spring.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091212/ap_on_sc/climate_e_mails
AP’s take on the stolen emails. They say it does negate the science.
Also thinking about he emails. Palin wanted to sue when her email account was hacked into, and then she turns around and uses someone elses hacked emails as the basis of her arguement. I guess she is the ONLY one who’s private emails should be respected. The right thing to do was to say, I cannot comment on email’s that were stolen. HA, HA…I just was dreamin’ a bit there.
Also, her emails, that were obtained legally, showed that she (her staff) had to ask McCain what Palin’s stand should be on abortion. I guess she really doesn’t have a firm stand if she had to ask someone else what HER stand should be.
So, by Palin’s rule…her emails are fair game to throw darts right back at her. Game on.
Lovely photos, as always. Heard on the morning news that S’error showed up unexpectedly on Conan’s show last night. Going to HuffPo to see if it’s posted. Everyone, stay warm and safe. Health and peace.
Lainey@32: I thought the same thing about the flocked trees! Even I, who hates winter, has to admit that sometimes it provides moments of stunning beauty. The only time I can tolerate the cold is NYC at Christmas. I was there once during a blizzard and it was like being in a snow globe (in fact I bought one that weekend to commemorate the experience.) Some friends of mine are in NYC this weekend and I’m really missing being there to see all the Christmas lights.
As to $P and the quote Dunne mentioned: y’know, if she were honest and upfront, we could give her a pass on this one, because it seems it could be an honest mistake. But when you set yourself up as a liar, everything you say is suspect.
Trisha @36
“Palin wanted to sue when her email account was hacked into, and then she turns around and uses someone elses hacked emails as the basis of her arguement.”
Very good point. In the world of Palin, it’s ok for her, no one else. She’s got alot of nerve. I cant WAIT until it all backfires on her, which it will – (hopefully) SOONER or later.
@22 overthemoon-
Made my day with that essay- thank you.
Gonna go have another cup of tea and warm up after looking at frost pics…
What the Iowa Tea Partiers are up to:
http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/12/iowa_tea_partiers_eye_palin_jindal_pence_organizer_says.php
you know? I don’t think, imo, that palin cares how she comes off in public…whether it’s stupid or ignorant or amazingly uninformed (which she absolutely is!), but she is smiling deviously on how much control she has over the media she so despises, and how much we talk and think of her…her fading from the topics of the day or even jokes would be the death of her! hmmm.
I’m indulging my juvenile side and sharing this photo of $P from over at the MSN news site. I’m sorry – the woman looks like a doofus, as we used to say when I was a kid.
http://col.stb.s-msn.com/i/32/CDF60E9645B3C1396DB7959663DB.jpg
To me there’s just some sort of subtle “goon” thing going on there that makes me here the mocking childhood taunt of ” Uhhhhhh …. DOY !” (not sure if that’s a Buffalo taunt but I think you get my drift )
I know …. I should be above that but this morning, I’m just not. (it’s making me laugh every time)
overthemoon @ #22 Thanks for the link – I couldn’t have said it better “Best da mn essay on Obama I’ve seen since Jan 20th.”
Should be required reading on the ‘Flats!!
And from a conservative, too!
Pig on trampoline.
http://sepientia.com/2009/12/strange-entertainment/
I’m a bit disappointed in Dunn- he expanded Palin’s “in a book we’d read about him” to deny that they read a book about Wooden *together*. It appears in Wooden’s book, ‘They Call Me Coach’, pb in 2003, which would be easily available in Alaska. The maxim appears as the introduction to Chapter 10, and is unsourced, as are other chapter lead quotes. Wooden would have been 93 then, so he may have had some editorial help. The Garner book, ‘Why Winners Win” written in 1995 attributed this quote to Linkletter. Perhaps Wooden quoted Linkletter; I can’t check the wording in Wooden’s book.
What Palin says she told Todd in the car is just fuzzy enough to be true- she doesn’t say “what Wooden said in his book, just “in a book about him” and she never claims they read it together.
The narrative point in Wooden’s book where this quote appears is just after he is benched as a coach in one place ["Apparently they did not want their present coach but did not want to pay off his contract."] and then he receives multiple offers to move elsewhere. He says his goal is to move up gradually into a coaching position at a major institution and quickly chooses a better job.
This would be a point Palin might identify with and bring up.
ok, for those of you who can tolerate it, here’s the link to video of Shatner performing from going rogue, & S’error performing from Shatner’s autobio – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/11/palin-shatner-conan-tonight-show-video_n_389584.html
What p*sses me off is that Conan addressed her as Governor! He shouldn’t have, and no one else should, either. Newsflash: She Quit!
Well , I dunno………….
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/11/palin-shatner-conan-tonight-show-video_n_389584.html
Call to action mudpups, here’s something we can do that will help our side on the Health Care Reform bill. If we can get her off the payroll and replaced with a person with a real heart for cancer survivors it will make news and show Liebermans for who they are.
Sign this letter asking for Mrs. Lieberman’s resignation. And help get this viral asap.
http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/12/11/sign-letter-to-susan-b-komen-foundation-donations-shouldnt-go-to-hadassah-lieberman/
“It has come to my attention via an article by Joe Conason in Salon that Hadassah Lieberman – wife of Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) – is currently a compensated “Global Ambassador” for Susan G. Komen for the Cure. It is widely known, however, that not only has Senator Lieberman been an instrument of obstruction to the kind of health care reform advocated by Susan G. Komen for the Cure, but that Mrs. Lieberman is also a former lobbyist for APCO Associates, which represents the interests of the same major, private health insurance and pharmaceutical companies which Mr. Lieberman seeks to protect.
Mrs. Lieberman’s relationship with Susan G. Komen for the Cure is unethical and misleading. Important and often very personal donations made to Susan G. Komen for the Cure to benefit the sick and dying are essentially undermining their intended use. And as Hadassah travels the globe under the banner of Susan G. Komen for the cure, decrying the inadequacies of our health care system and the desperate need to reform it, her husband is at home to kill the reform efforts we so desperately need.”
BTW, I thought Scarah did a sh*tty job on Conan. She was pathetic.
she didn’t even pretend to be reading from Shatner’s book…she can’t do ANYTHING right! I call for a ban on all that’s palin…I want to see her wither into nothingness, once and for all. the world has enough criminals and corrupt liars…no need to keep giving them a platform!
Pig on trampoline.
http://sepientia.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/pigs_02.jpeg
43 buffalo gal
I think the hat is a sort of ‘fascist theocratic’ fashion statement. She wouldn’t dress like Castro or Mao down to the shoes, but a little militaristic chapeau sure does look like a nod (loose pun intended) toward the dictator look.
Do you sell your photos? They are beautiful.
I like her “fashion statement” – my mom is in her eighties and from the old country. A lot of her opinions doesn’t come from reading or conversing about politics, but from visuals and body language. She couldn’t stand watching VP Candidate Palin, with her beauty pageant walk, winks, and smiles, and especially parading her children like she did. My mother is a consistent voter, honoring her ability to vote as an American citizen. She voted for Obama. This hat Palin wore, may have confirmed to a lot of people about the loony tunes that is Sarah Palin. Hope she keeps it up.
That Wooden quote Palin used:
On page 52 of Art Linkletter’s book, “Yes, you can: How to succeed in business and life” which came out in 1979.
It is quoted on page xvi of “How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life” by Mark Victor Hansen attributed to Linkletter
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Right Words for Any Occasion – Page 92 attributed to Linkletter
It’s in “They Call me Coach” pg 75 as a quote in a chapter header. It’s not attributed to anyone.
Looks like Wooden quotes Linkletter and Palin doesn’t know the difference between a quote at the beginning of a chapter and the prose. The quote is attributed to Wooden in QuotationsBook.com
So she may have read it in Wooden’s book, but, like some online sources, doesn’t know how to fact check, or the difference between an opening quote (a device used in many nonfiction works, and something taught in high school English) and the author’s prose.
University of Idaho, you should be ashamed you gave this person a diploma. She shows no signs of having learned the least bit about responsible, credible journalism, nor the desire to use any respected journalistic methods. She’s a throwback to yellow journalism at its worst.
I was impressed by SP’s reading on Conan. After reading the responses here, I realize that Shattner saved it for her. His facial expressions told the story. Her admirers are saying how great she looked. See what a professional make up artist can do?
55 Baker’s Dozen, are you back down here? interested in getting together if you are?
#56 sandra in oregon Says:
December 12th, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Her admirers are saying how great she looked. See what a professional make up artist can do?
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Professional makeup and lighting will do a lot for a person. Doesn’t change the inside of the complete dope known as $P.
Am currently nowhere. Looking for a job anywhere, visiting my elderly dad. I don’t think I have a home right now.
But things are still going well. I’m sure a lot better off than others.
Now I’m off to earn my name–baking cookies!
That hat is so, like, Britney Spears in 2008. Doofus, is right!
Amazing photos!!! Beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Lovely
BD, Weren’t you in SB?
my apologies if this has already been posted, I am behind in my reading, again. if you haven’t read this yet, do lol, it’s dripping with humorous (adult) snark.
http://open.salon.com/blog/floyd_elliot/2009/07/10/an_open_letter_to_sarah_palin
Say NO @ 64 – I’m only part way through the reading but it’s a good one. Laughing quite a bit. He had me at , “Dear Fruitbat”. Just wanted to jump back here to 2nd the motion to read the link @64.
props, trisha!
“That hat is so, like, Britney Spears in 2008. ”
She’s tryin’ to look young and sexy – MILF! Snerk!
That “Sexy Puritan” chapter in Going Rouge captures the whole shtick.
@51 austintx
Pig on trampoline: a flying pig – that is toooo cute.
@64 Say NO to Palin in Politics
Ohmy, that letter was, ummm what’s the word I want? vicious, funny and oddly spot on! (I know, that’s three words.)
As my dear friend used to say about rapier sharp repartee:
Bang! Bang! Stab! Slash! Ouch!
my,my. just gorgeous. this photo, like the one of Buf flying through virgin snow. ears back, head up will remain with me forever. heaven.
Jimzmom – Glad to know there is yet another Kentuckian on here, our numbers are growing and just maybe……..we’ll eventually turn the state to blue, eh?
Sullivan’s article is excellent and very thought-provoking. He is spot on in his statement that Obama isn’t saying anything different that what he’s said all along. It’s just that people on the right haven’t been listening. I’ve sent the link to several of my conservative relatives and friends. Maybe they’ll think a little kinder of our President – one can only hope!
@64, That is one of the best Sarah Palin rants I have ever come across. Hilarious, but so much truth in his letter. Awesome. I’ve saved it to pass on.
@66 MO, Sexy Puritan, I like it.
I do believe Ms Palin is trying to be young and fresh and sexy. Only, she’s NOT. bwwwwhhahahaha
@55 Baker’s Dozen:
Thank you, thank you for finding and citing original sources for the quote Dunn ranted about! Folks, *that* is fact checking, and supporting a position. The Internet abounds with uncited quotation sites. BD does it like Bartlett’s does: right. Ironic that Mrs. P’s image is that of a sexy librarian — no librarian I know would put his or her name on a book like Going Rogue.
Nsfmca: Yeah, I’m still based in SB, which at this point with all the gloom and rain is looking a lot more like Portland, but I’m gettin’ around lookin’ for a job. Thinkin’ about gettin’ a ghost writer also too and goin’ on a sight seein’ tour to sign it in warehouse stores. Ah, the glamour, also, too! If I don’t fact check–certainly a practice not without precedent, I can have it written, published, and do my tour all before Christmas, you betcha.
@70 GreatGranny2C:
Have no fear. Kentucky blue grass WILL prevail!
Sorry just had to bring this one back here from Huffington post
+ buddiecat2 I’m a Fan of buddiecat2 I’m a fan of this user 19 fans permalink
Worth reposting:
A woman in a hot air balloon realizes she is lost. She lowers her altitude and spots a man fishing from a boat below. She shouts to him, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”
The man consults his portable GPS and replies, “You’re in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.
She rolls her eyes and says, “You must be a Democrat!”
“I am,” replies the man. “How did you know?”
“Well,” answers the balloonist, “everything you tell me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to do with your information, and I’m still lost. Frankly, you’re not much help to me.”
The man smiles and responds, “You must be Sarah Palin.”
“I am, replies the balloonist. “How did you know?”
“Well,” says the man, “You don’t know where you are or where you’re going. You’ve risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and now you expect me to solve your problem. You’re in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but, somehow, now it’s my fault.”
By the way any one who actually believes that SP appearance was a surprise is out of their minds.it is just like the TF thing she did with Tina acting all surprised and all when everyone knew it was all set up in advance.
My friend very young friend the Ron Paul supporter,he does not talk to me about politics any more since I told him I did not like Ron Paul because he wanted to get rid of S.S. or at the very least privatise it. He thought that was a great idea because than he would have less taxes to pay..he is I think 22 or 23 lives at home and goes to college,used Obama car deal to buy a new vehicle,said why not.He’s right why not.Any way his deal today was the climate change deal in Copenhagen.He thinks it is the very wealthy trying to take over the world and using climate change to do it. He figures their are an unknown number of very rich,no names. men working together to take over.When he starts on these rants you can’t show him things like the polar bears on Ice floating or houses falling into the ocean cause it means nothing to him.Those kind of people with those kinds of thoughts are also truly scary.
ADN – SCATHING article about Palin – ’bout time!
“For many of us, she is much, much more: delusional; paranoid; vindictive; bitter; polarizing; petty; and, more than a trifle pathological……”
http://www.adn.com/opinion/comment/story/1052988.html
since everything is about vampires these days…well, maybe…according to books and serial tv, anyway, vampires can “glamorise” people…this seems to be what palin is capable of. I always thought she had some evil in her…can’t pinpoint it with a label.
maybe those doors she’s busting through are not of a spiritual nature…but of something below ground
Just to be picky, what is “ice fog” in Anchorage is “hoar frost” in Fairbanks or New England or Bethel. Real, eye-watering, lung cracking ice fog is -35 + (F or C), i.e., 40-below, frozen smog. So thick you can’t see the hood ornament. So searing you can’t breathe. So brownish greyish reddish yellowish you’d think you were in negative hell…..