JACK FROST, GRAFFITI ARTIST

A FEEBLE SUN AT 10:00 AM SATURDAY

ARTISTRY OF JACK FROST ON THE KITCHEN WINDOW

BASSWOOD ISLAND, BARELY VISIBLE  IN THE FOG AND SNOW ON SATURDAY

Sunday, 8:45 AM.  -6 degrees F at both the ferry dock and on the back porch.  Wind SW, calm with occasional light to moderate gusts.  The sky is mostly overcast with some patches of blue and a struggling sun, and lots of early lake fog that is now burning off.  The humidity is 82%, the barometer mostly steady for now at 30.44".  We got another 3" or so of lake effect snow last night. The forecast calls for much warmer temperatures, in the twenties and low thirties for the coming week, with a wintry mix of overcast, clouds and snow flurries. Warmer sounds good.

   It snowed most of the day Saturday; fine, icy flakes, that the biting wind whirled and swirled around in the fog.  I went to the recycle center but that was it.  Buddy has a bout with the cough he gets occasionally and I am trying to get ahead of it with cough syrup and antibiotics, and am keeping him (and me) mostly inside until he gets over it and the weather improves.  So far so good, I don't want a sick dog.  

   The brutal weather continues. Basswood Island, usually easily seen from the casino at Red Cliff, was barely visible at noon, as was a feeble sun, viewed through the big hemlock across the street. 

    On the plus side of the ledger, the artistry of Jack Frost has appeared on a kitchen window pane, the storm window of which had been left up so the window could be easily opened, if need be, for ventilation.     

   Jack Frost seldom visits us in these days of modern double and triple glazed windows, but my bedroom window was his constant winter canvas when I was a kid, and I remember looking at fascinating scenes of his wintry artistry, which my imagination turned into a frosty panorama of mountains and forests, and villages populated by fantastic creatures.
   Modern heating and construction  has banished Jack Frost to higher latitudes and poorer places, I fear.

JACK FROST

By

Francine Roberts

Jack Frost paints portraits 

on the window panes

...graffiti artist