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Recent Examples of frostworkWind Cave National Park features delicate boxwork along its ceilings, along with frostwork and cave popcorn.—Simon Peter Groebner, Star Tribune, 23 July 2021
As a rule of thumb, wait until late spring to sow warm-season grass seed, after the threat of frost has passed and soil temperatures are consistently above 65°F.
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Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
14 Mar. 2025
Both 2017 and 2016 were considered very good, with 2017 marked by a short harvest due to early frost and 2016 noted for a hot, dry summer.
From a reading delivered in November in Richmond, Virginia.
e began to figure it out on day eleven or twelve of the seven-day trip, the slate and obsidian waves rolling under our stern, the crispy hoarfrost of whitecap foam seeding in our beards, the wind spitting ice in our eyes.
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Mark Richard,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
Nearby, hoarfrost shimmered on hemlock branches, a bear cub peered out from a hole in the snow, and a sudden, terrifying silence echoed in the ears of the man’s ski partners.
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Caroline Van Hemert,
Outside Online,
11 Aug. 2021
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