Is there such a thing as frost? Is there such a thing as ice?

Frost is a tailor, stitching frail old leaves to the cold ground:



Frost is a tricksie confectioner, sugar-coating thorns:





Frost is a careless fairy jeweler, scattering diamonds and quartz



And ice is a spider-weaver, spinning its web hard and stiff around any floating thing.



Away from my desk for now, my friends, so I will visit your pages later . . . see you round the Internets in other hours!