Wednesday morning dawned cold and slightly foggy – perfect conditions for a light pogonip.
♦ pogonip ˈpä-gə-ˌnip noun a dense winter fog containing frozen particles that is formed in deep mountain valleys of the western United States.
Origin: 1860–65, Americanism; < Shoshone paγɨnappɨh thunder cloud; cf. soγovaγɨnappɨh fog (with soγo- earth), yaγumpaγɨnappih fog (with yaγun- valley) Mr. Ferrero Rocher was taught pogonip is a Shoshone Indian word meaning “white death.”
The fog was starting to recede by the time I thought to get my camera. You can just barely see it at the base of the Bloody Runs.
On my way back into the house I saw this spider web. It looked like thick white string because of the pogonip. (I decided to play around with photoshop on this one. The contrast and color saturation were increased by about 25%.)
fantastic images!
When my children were young, we loved going out on mornings like this. We called them fairy walks. The world was a frosty, frozen, fairy wonderland.
I love love love frozen mornings like that! So smart to take pictures of it! Thansk for sharing!
Great pictures! We are having an inversion here in Idaho and this is what the mornings are like. The air is so heavy with dampness that it goes right to your bones!
really beautiful
I love new words! Thanks for sharing. And that picture of the spider web is fantastic. Great work!
The last few mornings have been so foggy when I have left the valley. I got to the top of Sand Pass this morning, the fog broke and it was just stunning…bright blue sky,the sun was shinning brightly and you could see an ocean of fog sitting low on the valley floor…it was breathtaking! And my camera was at home…..darn!!
I love your photos……the one of the barbed wire fence is my favorite.
I love the web photo, amazing detail.
There IS beauty everywhere. Nice pics!
Those are amazing pictures! Thanks for sharing them!
Oh, Cocoa. Those are all so lovely. I wish I could have been on that walk with you!!
Thanks also for the neat new vocab word. 🙂
Absolutely awesome! I love those images!!
Breathtakingly beautiful!
Just out of curiosity, what kind of camera do you recommend? And are you ever going to post some photo taking tips 🙂 ?!?
WOW! Those are really cool pix!!
Today we had pogonip too. The barbed wire fences had horse hairs stuck to them and there were little frozen crystals swinging off of the fence wherever a hair had stuck. It was amazing. I wish I had taken pictures like you did!
Tremendous photos, Cocoa. I miss seeing that fog. I used to take rides with my dad to a hay ranch in Nevada and would see it. Lovely.
Wow! Those pictures are amazing!
I loved your pictures. Wow…I need to get a good, big ol’ camera.
fabulous photos! someday I will remember the camera when there’s pogonip.
These are some lovely photos. I especially like the close-up of the branch. I was out taking pictures of snowflakes today, and I know how you feel about the macro lens — ah, what a thing it would be nice to have!