February 1, 2012
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
And just when I thought that basically we were going to skip a winter (temperatures had hardly dipped below freezing and not a single snowflake had been spotted yet this season) it seems we may be in for a prolonged period of brrrr. As I rolled up the curtains in my living room this morning, this is what I saw on the windows. On the inside of the windows. On my side of the windows. Window frost. Ijsbloemen is what they're called in Dutch ('Ij' is pronounced as 'ay' in 'hay'), or Ice Flowers, which sounds much friendlier than what they are.
I must admit that they do look pretty. I hadn't seen window frost like this since the 1980s, I think, when for a brief period of time we lived in a trailer while my parents were renovating our house and window frost appeared on the caravan's windows in that cold winter. That same winter I also was in the army and I distinctly recall one morning, waking up in my lorry (yeah, I was a truck driver... can you believe it?) after a bitterly cold night outside and seeing window frost on the inside of my (unheated) lorry. My army sleeping bag had actually kept me snug and very warm all night. It was difficult getting out of it. OK. So in this two paragraph blog post I told you that I was in the army, that I drove a lorry, and that for a while in my life I could be considered trailer trash. I think that's enough revelations for now.
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