{"id":382,"date":"2010-01-17T16:52:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T21:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/?p=382"},"modified":"2010-01-17T16:52:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T21:52:33","slug":"beautiful-winter-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2010\/01\/beautiful-winter-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful winter weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am struck by the beauty of winter these last days with the heavy hoar frost covering everything.\u00a0 Friday there was frost and overcast skies which looks kind of eery.\u00a0 Saturday it was beautifully sunny and frosty.\u00a0\u00a0 Interestingly because of the way the temps were, the frost would melt on the lower branches and the top remained coated.\u00a0 Today again it is overcast and you cannot distinguish the horizon&#8211;it all blends together.\u00a0 My challenge is&#8211;how do you take a picture to come close to the beauty of these scenes?\u00a0 Here are a couple of my efforts.\u00a0 See more on my facebook page.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-383\" title=\"hoar-frost-tree-sky\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/01\/hoar-frost-tree-sky-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"hoar-frost-tree-sky\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/01\/hoar-frost-tree-sky-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/01\/hoar-frost-tree-sky-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-384\" title=\"hoar-frost-close-up\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/01\/hoar-frost-close-up-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"hoar-frost-close-up\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/01\/hoar-frost-close-up-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/01\/hoar-frost-close-up-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=382&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am struck by the beauty of winter these last days with the heavy hoar frost covering everything.\u00a0 Friday there was frost and overcast skies which looks kind of eery.\u00a0 Saturday it was beautifully sunny and frosty.\u00a0\u00a0 Interestingly because of the way the temps were, the frost would melt on the lower branches and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Beautiful winter weather - Ekstrands in Congo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2010\/01\/beautiful-winter-weather\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Beautiful winter weather - Ekstrands in Congo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I am struck by the beauty of winter these last days with the heavy hoar frost covering everything.\u00a0 Friday there was frost and overcast skies which looks kind of eery.\u00a0 Saturday it was beautifully sunny and frosty.\u00a0\u00a0 Interestingly because of the way the temps were, the frost would melt on the lower branches and the [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ekstrand\/2010\/01\/beautiful-winter-weather\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ekstrands in Congo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-01-17T21:52:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/01\/hoar-frost-tree-sky-300x224.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Pete &amp; 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