Posted for Macroday: Winter* Swirly is the officially recognized scientific term for swirly frost as determined by the 1968 Frost Summit in Oslo, Norway. Frost which is MORE swirly is termed 'Wicked Swirly'
The comments reminded me of this image.
Saturday, November 19, 2005
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By people who like to say Shitpoke. It's a whole other bird, Shitpoke.
I LOVE this image!!!! Nice and swirly! Looks like a kind of bird...Don't you find? A peacock maybe.
ReplyDeletelooks like old man winter blew it on. really cool
ReplyDeleteHey! That's true SPK I SEE IT TOOOOOOOO! yep.
ReplyDeleteThis one was worthy of showing to Mr. Billy. You got a "cool" from him. Ha.
ReplyDeleteOh no, you don't. "Wicked swirly" is pure Maine, buster. I have outlaws in Maine - I outa know.
ReplyDeleteAnd um...*ahem*... is this a CURRENT photo?
I thought not. (That'll teach him for razzing me about an August photo I posted last week.)
But 'tis lovely and a demonstration of your talent all the same. If you have any pictures of wicked swirly frost, I'd love to see them.
Is this a swirly frost fractal? :)
ReplyDeleteVery cool shot!
ReplyDeletemerlinprincesse: I sort of saw it as two fighting cocks near death.
ReplyDeletespk: Old man winter did a Lara Barrett on it.
kalani: even if you had to squint a little.
billy: My regards to Mr Billy who I am quite jealous of. He's so lucky to live in such a fire-active neighborhood.
Wrath: Well, it was in its original Norwegian when they defined it. It's TRANSLATED as "Wicked".
ginnie: Sort of...more of a nice paisley.
3LK: Your windows don't frost up anymore now that you are an adult. ;)
calvin: Wicked!