I Awoke Today and Found the Frost Perched on the Town

The title above is from a Joni Mitchell song, just so you don't think I'm poetic or creative or anything like that.

I took Casey for a walk yesterday morning to find frost all over the cars on the street as well as on our outdoor patio table. It's pretty unusual to get frost here. The main reason (from my science geek background) is that frost usually requires a clear sky overnight to allow the surfaces to give their heat back into outer space. I can count on one hand the number of clear mornings we'll wake up to in the colder months here. But as you can see above, this morning was one of them. It was a pretty refreshing change from the dull grey.