common_nature | The Fog in the Forest

3 degrees C. No ice on the puddles. The tracks through the forest muddy, not frozen. But the fog has its own degree of chill. A day to numb the fingers and the feet.

Not all the colour has fled.

The rising sun, impersonating the moon.

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shirebound

These are marvelous, especially the last one!

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puddleshark

Thank you!

While I was walking the moon set, and the sun rose, and they looked almost the same. It made it hard to tell which direction I was walking... 😊

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full_metal_ox

It’s like those cloudy seaside days when the water and sky form a gradient rather than a horizon.

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puddleshark

Yes. We don't often get that here - the sea is rarely blue - but it's so beautiful when it happens.

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rodo

These are so lovely. The first one is my favorite, though. Reminds me of home.

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puddleshark

Thank you!

The silver birches and the bog pools are always so lovely in winter. It's a bleak landscape. But beautiful.

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pauraque

Wow, it looks wonderfully haunted!

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puddleshark

Yes! I love the forest in the fog - the way everything looks ghostly.

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linky

These are gorgeous!

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puddleshark

Thank you!

It was such a fabulous day to be out with the camera. I love fog.

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yourlibrarian

Oh what wonderful photos 😃 I particularly like the 8th and the last two. So atmospheric!

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puddleshark

Thank you!

I'm always delighted when we have fog, and all the familiar tracks through the forest become strange.

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cmcmck

So much depth

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puddleshark

Yes, the way everything fades in the distance, and all the different gradations of grey. It is such a joy to be out with the camera when there is fog.

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yarnandglue

So beautiful! I especially love the 7th photo!

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puddleshark

Thank you!

The fog was doing its best to turn everything grey, but the bracken was resisting!

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full_metal_ox

“The fog in the forest”: ballad title!

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puddleshark

Heh!

Yes! Probably one of those ballads, listened to while sitting round the fire, which makes you shiver...

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full_metal_ox

Especially should you happen to be camping in a foggy forest.

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puddleshark

LOL

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stonepicnicking_okapi

Ooo! Spooky in the best way!

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puddleshark

I love how fog does this. Makes everything strange.

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turlough

Wow, fantastic photos! The fog makes the forest look so spooky and mysterious but also starkly beautiful.

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puddleshark

Thank you!

Yes. The magic of fog - suddenly all the familiar paths become strange...

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violsva

I LOVE fog, thank you so much for posting these.

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puddleshark

You're welcome!

Same here. I love going out walking in the fog. Seeing everything made mysterious.

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randomdrops

Absolutely beautiful. Fog is just magical no matter where you are, but a foggy forest is the best in my opinion.

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puddleshark

Thank you!

Yes. When I opened the curtains and saw fog, I immediately thought, "This is a day to go walking in the forest!"

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octahedrite

Beautiful photos!

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puddleshark

Thank you!

It is such a joy to be out with the camera on a foggy day.

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ysabetwordsmith

That's so beautiful. You really captured the feeling of fog!

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puddleshark

Thank you!

The heath and the forest are always magical places to go walking in the fog. I love trying to capture that sense of everything fading in the distance.

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ysabetwordsmith

You're lucky to live in such a magical landscape.

I've seen the West Coast and its great temperate rainforests, some of which are also spectacular foglands. The redwoods are famous cloudscrapers who make their own weather, but interestingly, the spruces and hemlocks of the Hoh Rainforest can do it too. I've stood under foxgloves taller than myself.

Here in the Midwest, it's not rare to have light, hazy fogs but a really deep fog is uncommon. I know of one shallow lake, though, that has a spectacular phenomenon: some mornings, it produces tall columns of mist that rise up dancing above the water. I used to see it driving to college, and it was so beautiful.