Dunbar Residents Association News and Events

The Angel Hair is here again, along side most of the Trails in Pacific Spirit Park . The Feather Frost is white and kind of looks like curved white feathers poking out of pieces of dead Alder tree branches and fallen logs . Some times there are lots of them near the sides of the trails, on broken pieces of branches. These snow like clumps of frost needles are always found on deciduous trees that at very sick or dead ! Stop for a moment and touch the white cold frozen hair and they quickly melt and disappear in your hand !

Angel Hair forms during the night when the temperature is just a few degrees below freezing and usually after a relatively winter warm and wet spell . In the old days us kids called them ” Forest Popsicles” one lick and they were gone, disappearing like magic into the heavens above !

Early this Sunday morning all the many things that were needed, were in the place for the Angel Hair, sometimes called Feather Frost, to make a big appearance all over Pacific Spirit Park . They squeeze their way out of cracks in old broken and frozen wood, pushed up through rotting stumps and some special ones looked like they were as light as a curved fine white Bantam Chicken feather, that floated down from the sky above . As the daytime temperature warmed up to just above freezing, the” Feather of Angels” disappeared like Magic only to appear again when natures ” Jack Frost ” said it was time for them to make another grand appearance and makes us all wonder with amazement about those strange pieces of “White Winter Fluff ” that mysteriously show up on a cold winter morning in Pacific Spirit Park !

Terry