My son has always seen frost on TV or out the car window, but he has never had a chance to play in it and feel it.  Yesterday morning there was the first frost here in Badplaas.  He was terribly excited when I showed him and asked if he could go and feel it.  I don’t think he realised just HOW cold it would be when I told him it is very cold.

I struggled to decide which photos to show you as they each tell a different side of what he experienced, so here are many photos.

The realisation dawns that this is actually VERY cold

But the urge to feel it cannot be resisted

Ice on a piece of bark

Trying to warm up in a patch of sun

Making footprints in the frost

This was Garfield’s first experience of frost too – he didn’t seem to mind at all

Ice Crystals perfectly formed on a piece of wood

Ice on his shoes from running around

Teasing me that he would lie down and roll down the hill

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He eventually settled for running down the hill