Mist & Fog | Those Magical Mornings

Many Misty Ways

A common urban legend is that the Inuit have several hundred words for snow. Nonsense, as it turns out; there are only four. (…)
What is true though, is that there are many more than four ways to describe the phenomenon of fog.
Fog comes in so many shapes and sizes. The terms misty and hazy are, of course, well-known, but what we all conveniently lump into the “fog” bin has many more gradations. Ground fog, low-lying fog, fog banks, and fog wisps may be common terms. But have you ever heard of sea fog, ice fog, industrial fog, or Arctic sea smoke, radiation fog, valley fog or frozen fog (rime or hoarfrost)?

Lady Mist

All of these manifestations have one thing in common: she (for surely it must be a woman, draped in her translucent white gown) gently erases the ugliness from the landscape, like a natural Gaussian Blur. In my language those wisps of mist are called Witte Wieven, meaning White Women. I rest my case!
She softly blurs away cars, apartment blocks, cranes, lampposts, power lines, entire roads and cities.
In an instant, even the most overbuilt place becomes serene and photogenic.
That is… as long as there’s not too much mist. For when everything disappears, very little remains.

Paint the Town Pink

She masterfully transforms the busy city into a mysterious fairy-tale, where cows, swans, geese and windmills emerge as born fairy-tale creatures.She spreads her translucent veil over the morning, covering just enough to erase the distractions, yet thin enough to let the first light paint the world in pink.