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HOAR FROST

There’s only one thing in nature that conjures the crisp, sharp beauty of the shoulder seasons for Nadia Shaikh...

ON A CLEAR and windless night, when the outdoor temperature is just right, a hoar frost can form. No matter how hard I tried to conjure up the right animal or plant to illustrate this time of year, I just couldn’t get the feeling of winterness out of my mind. The nostalgic echo of hibernation, the urge to hunker down, skeleton trees and the smell of thaw. It might be jumping the gun for November, but I can’t be the only one yearning for the cold, crisp days when we’ve said goodbye to Summer. Our seasons tend to be worryingly unpredictable anyway, so I think it’s OK to be reminded over the coming months to look out for and appreciate one of nature’s best meteorological gifts.

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